Happy Endings
  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804997871
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.99

Happy Endings

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2 Dec 2025
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31 July 2025
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31 July 2025
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The brilliantly funny, inspiring and thought-provoking first novel from the author of The F**k It! List - a story which begs the question: When your life is f**ked, what more do you have to lose?!

When Jennifer Cole is told she has three months left to live, she knows her life is f*cked. With nothing to lose, she decides it’s time to set out everything she’s always longed to say but never dared. She writes three letters: one to her overbearing, selfish sister, one to her spineless, cheating ex-husband, the third to her charming but unreliable ex-boyfriend.

At first it feels great to have finally found her voice. But as things start to unravel, she discovers that the truth has its own consequences…
  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804997871
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Melanie Cantor

Melanie Cantor was a celebrity agent and publicist for over thirty years. Her clients included Ulrika Jonsson, Melinda Messenger and Melanie Sykes. In 2004, she hosted a makeover show on Channel 4 called Making Space and in 2017 having just turned 60 she was scouted on Kings Cross station, subsequently appearing as a 'real model' in the most recent Dove campaign. She turned her hand to writing in 2008. Death and other Happy Endings is her first published novel.

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Also by Melanie Cantor

The F**k It! List
Life and other Happy Endings
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