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  • Published: 17 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529176797
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $22.99

The F**k It! List




Uplifting, funny and heartwarming: the story of a woman finding herself let down and alone at 40 and deciding to make some of life's big choices on her own terms.

A laugh-out-loud comedy for fans of Alexandra Potter, Bella Mackie and Harper Ford!

Meet Daisy. She’s just caught her boyfriend shagging someone else at her fortieth birthday party. She’s camped out in her childhood bedroom. And it looks as if her dream to have a baby has gone down the pan.

Time for a F**k It! List?

Don’t miss this triumphant comedy about a woman taking on the world on her own terms.

  • Published: 17 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529176797
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $22.99

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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Praise for The F**k It! List

'Daisy is unique and refreshing. I went through every high and low with her - I wept and I laughed...a lot. A ten out of ten read.

Josie Lloyd, author of The Cancer Ladies' Running Club

A really warm and buoyant read, perfect for fans of Lucy Dillon or Alexandra Potter.

Niamh Hargan, author of The Break Up Clause

Fabulous. A wonderful, uplifting shot in the arm. I loved it - you’ll love it too.

Amanda Prowse, author of To Love and Be Loved and An Ordinary Life

A novel of immense charm, warmth, humour and quiet subversion. A triumph of ‘feel-good’ without the cliches.

Elizabeth Fremantle, author of Disobedient

Fresh, funny and impossible to put down - I loved it. I wish Daisy was my friend!

Sarah Turner, author of Stepping Up

Hilarious, subversive and heartwarming

Jessica Biel, actress