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  • Published: 18 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529932584
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

How to Make Life Better When it Feels Like it’s Getting Worse





The beloved character of Fluffy is back after nearly two decades, in Simone Lia’s utterly disarming graphic novel

Fluffy Pulcino is nearly all grown up. Nearly. But life in your early twenties can be complicated enough without the added quirk of being a bunny trying to function in a human world.

'I think we’ve all got a inner Fluffy, and reading this might help you get to know yours better... This is a lovely book' Philippa Perry

No longer in denial about who he is, Fluffy sets out on the difficult task of finding his place in the world. His attempts at writing a self-help book lead him to reflect on a life plagued by failure - and by having to dodge people who just want to pick him up and stroke his ears. Fluffy’s coming of age is drawn with a heartbreaking veracity that hits its mark when the overtly sweet and fantastical meets with an unswerving ability to voice our darker, more painful truths.

How to Make Life Better When It Feels Like it's Getting Worse is an utterly disarming graphic novel, and a buoyant return to a beloved character. Through the unlikely avatar of a small, fluffy bunny and gloriously irreverent storytelling, Simone Lia shows what it means to grow into adulthood, find purpose and live in this world.

  • Published: 18 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529932584
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

About the author

Simone Lia

Simone Lia writes and illustrates comics and children's books. She is the author of Fluffy, published by Jonathan Cape. With Tom Gauld, whom she met at the Royal College of Art in 2000, she publishes her own comics and limited edition products under the name of Cabanon Press. British-born Maltese, she lives in London and visits Malta frequently.

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Praise for How to Make Life Better When it Feels Like it’s Getting Worse

I think we’ve all got a inner Fluffy, and reading this might help you get to know yours better... This is a lovely book

Philippa Perry, author of THE BOOK YOU WANT EVERYONE YOU LOVE* TO READ

Lia's pages are innovative and varied... compulsively readable

Praise for FLUFFY, Guardian

Simone Lia transforms what at first looks like another of her appealing children's books into an unpredictable and reflective human drama, while never losing her childlike playfulness... The result is a unique parable about the loving bunny inside us all

Praise for FLUFFY, Daily Telegraph

A humorous, beautiful tale about love, anxiety and adventure

Praise for FLUFFY, City A.M