Some days you lose your job, some days your kids move out and some days your husband resembles a cocktail frankfurt. Some days you prang the car, you’re stalked, or you’re robbed, some days your hair looks like you’ve been electrocuted and some days all these things happen at once. And on top of that your bum drops.

In this gleefully exaggerated memoir Gretel Killeen looks at the big questions that confront us in times of calamity – what the hell is life all about and what on earth are we supposed to do with it?

This is the female midlife crisis for the generation that was meant to be superwomen: able to run a global empire, raise a family, help a crippled dog give birth and do the ironing while having multiple orgasms.

With warmth, wisdom and wicked wit, Gretel takes us on a hilarious yet poignant ride as she stands on top of the hill, looks at the view and wonders ‘Is this all there is?’

Gretel Killeen has been a stand-up comic, an advertising voice-artist, and a television host and she has written more than twenty books, sold here and occasionally internationally. While a Goodwill Ambassador for unicef she wrote and directed a television documentary about aids Orphans in Zambia. She’s entertained the troops in the Middle-East, she’s fished for piranha in Bolivia, survived a motorbike accident in Thailand and gas poisoning in France, she’s squatted in a Florentine hotel, escaped drug dealers in Morocco and dropped out of uni twice. Gretel’s life has taken a detour from the path predicted for her as captain of the state school debating team and captain of her strict private school… and she’s done it while being the single mother/slave of her two children. She would now like to put her feet up, marry someone rich and live in a very big house (so that her bum will fit).

NB: Some of the above may be gleefully exaggerated.

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