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Jo Brand is getting on a bit and wants to tell you all about it. This is not a ‘life begins after menopause’ pep talk. This book will not tell you how to live longer or better. This book offers no guidance on being your 'best self'. Sorry. This is a book about relinquishing control, embracing the bed slippers and bathrobe, about not 'getting work done', the aches, pains, trials and tribulations – essentially everything you don’t see from age-defying celebrities on Instagram. A riotous and hilarious memoir about how to do your 'second half' the Jo Brand way.

Jo Brand is getting on a bit and, to be frank, all this stuff about ageing well and staying active has made her feel rather tired. 
 
From lying unconscious under a surgeon’s knife with your fingers crossed to a jam and mongoose sperm emulsion (alright, Jo made that one up), we are surrounded with hot takes on how to age well. 
 
Safe to say, Jo just can’t be arsed. 
 
This is not a ‘life begins after menopause’ pep talk. 
 
This book will not tell you how to live longer or better. (Sorry.) 
 
Instead, join Jo as she ponders how to age her own way. 
 
Things you can expect: not changing her pants, embracing the utter joy of becoming an ‘invisible’ older woman, a celebration of the endless opportunities afforded by selective deafness. 
 
Completely unscientific and largely unresearched, Decline and Falling Over is a bungled assortment of musings on how to make the most of your shitter second half.

Long established as one of the UK’s best-loved comics, Jo Brand is the star and co-writer of Getting On, the BBC’s BAFTA award-winning series set on a hospital’s geriatric ward, which was partly inspired by her earlier career in nursing. Other television credits include hosting Great British Bake Off: Extra Slice (BBC), Taskmaster (Dave), Have I Got News for You (BBC One), Would I Lie to You (BBC One), Jo Brand’s Hot Potatoes (BBC One) and the award-winning Through the Cakehole (Channel 4). 
Jo has written several highly acclaimed best-selling books Can’t Stand Up For Sitting Down, Look Back In Hunger, Born Lippy and The More You Ignore Me which was made into a feature film and released in 2018. She also co-wrote and starred in the sitcom Damned on Channel 4.

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