Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is a book for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it’s a book for everyone. If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: failure has taught me lessons I would never otherwise have understood. I have evolved more as a result of things going wrong than when everything seemed to be going right. Out of crisis has come clarity, and sometimes even catharsis.Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. It's a book about learning from our mistakes and about not being afraid. Uplifting, inspiring and rich in stories from Elizabeth’s own life, How to Fail reveals that failure is not what defines us; rather it is how we respond to it that shapes us as individuals. Because learning how to fail is actually learning how to succeed better. And everyone needs a bit of that.Gold title• In only its first series, the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast has already accrued 200k downloads, and charted in the top 3 on iTunes. It featured guest appearances from Dolly Alderton, David Nicholls, Sebastian Faulks, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and more. With more series to come, this audience will only grow, allowing more people to build an intimate relationship with Elizabeth and the How to Fail brand. • 4th Estate have now signed up as a sponsor for series 2 and 3 of the podcast, meaning the book (and more of 4th Estate’s titles) will always be forward in listeners minds. • Elizabeth has a terrific sales track record. Her most recent novel, The Party, has sold 130k copies, with over half of those sales coming from ebooks. It was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. • For readers of Everything I Know About Love (63k), Mad Girl (87k) and Notes on a Nervous Planet (51k) this is the kind of inspirational, confessional, funny memoir that is really striking a chord in the current zeitgeist.Competition: Everything I know about love;Such a Fun Age;Adults;Atomic Habits;Unfollow;I Feel Bad About My Neck;How to Own the Room;The Other Half of Augusta Hope;Normal People;Grown Ups;How to be a grown up;the wrong knickers;So Lucky;How Do You Like Me Now. Dolly Alderton;Pandora Sykes;Tan France;Marian Keys
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is a book for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it’s a book for everyone. If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: failure has taught me lessons I would never otherwise have understood. I have evolved more as a result of things going wrong than when everything seemed to be going right. Out of crisis has come clarity, and sometimes even catharsis.Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. It's a book about learning from our mistakes and about not being afraid. Uplifting, inspiring and rich in stories from Elizabeth’s own life, How to Fail reveals that failure is not what defines us; rather it is how we respond to it that shapes us as individuals. Because learning how to fail is actually learning how to succeed better. And everyone needs a bit of that.Gold title• In only its first series, the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast has already accrued 200k downloads, and charted in the top 3 on iTunes. It featured guest appearances from Dolly Alderton, David Nicholls, Sebastian Faulks, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and more. With more series to come, this audience will only grow, allowing more people to build an intimate relationship with Elizabeth and the How to Fail brand. • 4th Estate have now signed up as a sponsor for series 2 and 3 of the podcast, meaning the book (and more of 4th Estate’s titles) will always be forward in listeners minds. • Elizabeth has a terrific sales track record. Her most recent novel, The Party, has sold 130k copies, with over half of those sales coming from ebooks. It was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. • For readers of Everything I Know About Love (63k), Mad Girl (87k) and Notes on a Nervous Planet (51k) this is the kind of inspirational, confessional, funny memoir that is really striking a chord in the current zeitgeist.Competition: Everything I know about love;Such a Fun Age;Adults;Atomic Habits;Unfollow;I Feel Bad About My Neck;How to Own the Room;The Other Half of Augusta Hope;Normal People;Grown Ups;How to be a grown up;the wrong knickers;So Lucky;How Do You Like Me Now. Dolly Alderton;Pandora Sykes;Tan France;Marian Keys