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  • Published: 29 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241555224
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Ready For Absolutely Nothing

‘If you like Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner, you’ll like this’ The Times




An intimate, relatable and funny memoir from Susannah Constantine, our favourite fashion guru and one half of the hugely popular, Trinny and Susannah's What Not to Wear

Susannah Constantine, our loved style guru and one half of the outrageously popular television programme, What Not to Wear, spent her youth entangled in glitz and glamour. Susannah's very first memoir is filled to the brim with scandalous stories, jaw-dropping royal relationships and star-studded encounters from pop stars to the fashion greats. But beneath it all is a woman who is still getting to know herself, even after falling in love at first sight, presenting one of the most monumental television programmes ever and having Princess Margaret as a second mother figure.

Uncertain of her future, unsure of how to cope with her own mother's tragic battle with bipolar disorder, and becoming a mother herself, Susannah is on a journey of discovery and her memoir tells you her greatest loves and lessons, bound together with disarming honesty and beguiling humour.

  • Published: 29 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241555224
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

About the author

Susannah Constantine

Susannah Constantine is a novelist, journalist broadcaster and podcaster with over 25 years experience in the media and 50 years of f**k ups under her belt.

She lives in chaos on the edge of a wood in Sussex and works full time as a housewife, PA and taxi driver to her husband and three (sort of) grown up children.

Praise for Ready For Absolutely Nothing

Absolutely brilliant

Elton John

Wonderfully written, very funny, but more than anything completely genuine

Lady Anne Glenconner, author of Lady in Waiting

We lunched better than we danced

Anton Du Beke

Shewd, funny, ideally candid and written with great confidence, brio and aplomb. A feisty, thought-provoking delight

William Boyd

Funny . . . Never dull

Guardian

Fascinating

Daily Telegraph

A rollicking ride . . . What a life

Sunday Times

Sparkling

Daily Mail

A romp . . . Constantine comes across as a trooper with a filthy sense of humour

The Times

A treasure trove of previously untold stories . . . A riveting read

Good Housekeeping

Entertaining and funny

Mail on Sunday

Exuberant

i

Bonkers and brilliant. Her writing is exquisite. With comedy and candour, she bares her soul . . . Magnificent

Sunday Mail

Filled with royal anecdotes and celebrity snippits . . . An entertaining read

Scotsman

Astonishing, frank and frankly hilarious

Eastern Daily Prezs

Wildly fun

Daily Telegraph, '50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022'

Gives readers a fascinating insight into [her] extraordinary life

Woman & Home

Included in 'Best celebrity autobiographies of 2022 to buy for Christmas'

The Telegraph

Sensational, juicy, gossipy, filthy and bravely honest in equal measure, Susannah Constantine's memoir is a rollicking romp through the upper middle classes

Sunday Times

Hilarious and honest, sparing neither herself nor her readers from incredibly intimate details . . . A book for anyone who's after laughter, tears and one hell of a rollercoaster ride

Good Housekeeping 'BOOKS OF THE YEAR'