Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 16/07/2020
ISBN: 9781787330511
Length: 272 Pages
Dimensions: 222mm x 144mm x 144mm
Weight: 412g
RRP: £14.99
** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **
'Indecently entertaining' Guardian
'Hilarious' The Times
I had no idea how to commit to another human being. I could barely commit to reading a magazine, and I wrote for magazines for a living. My specialist subject was celebrities, and my own relationships made their marriages look eternal. I'd never paid a household bill that didn't mention bailiffs, and my idea of exercise was to go and stand outside a famous person's house and stare until I'd convinced myself that I lived in it.
But my life in LA was happy; free of care and consequence. That was, until I came down to earth - with a bump.
So this is the story of how I staggered from partying in Hollywood to bringing up a baby in Piss Alley, Dalston; how I never did find a copy of What To Expect When You Weren't Even Fucking Expecting To Be Expecting, and why paternity testing is not a good topic for a first-date conversation.
People always said I'd find love where I least expected it. I always said they were idiots.
'Beautiful, wild, painfully honest, hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking' Dolly Alderton
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 16/07/2020
ISBN: 9781787330511
Length: 272 Pages
Dimensions: 222mm x 144mm x 144mm
Weight: 412g
RRP: £14.99
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