Harper Collins Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong – Elizabeth Day New Accessories

‘Most failures can teach us something meaningful about ourselves if we choose to listen’

In Failosophy Elizabeth Day brings together all the lessons she has learned, from conversations with the guests on her award-winning How to Fail podcast, from stories shared with her by readers and listeners, and from her own life, and distils them into seven principles of failure.

Practical, reassuring and inspirational, these principles offer a guide through life’s rough patches. From failed exams to romantic break-ups, from career setbacks to confidence crises, from navigating anxiety to surviving loss, Failosophy recognises, and celebrates, the fact that failure connects us all. It is what makes us human.

With insights from Malcolm Gladwell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Frankie Bridge, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sande, Alain de Botton, Mabel, Fearne Cotton, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes, Andrew Scott and many, many more, Failosophy is the essential handbook for turning failure into success.

About the Author

Elizabeth Day is the author of three previous novels. Her acclaimed debut Scissors, Paper, Stone , won a Betty Trask Award and Home Fires was an Observer book of the year. Her third, Paradise City, was named one of the best novels of 2015 in the Evening Standard. She is also an award-winning journalist and has written extensively for the Telegraph, The Times , the Guardian , the Observer , the Mail on Sunday, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle.

– Format: Hardcover
– Language: English
– Number Of Pages: 160
– Published: 1st October 2020
– Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
– Country of Publication: GB
– Dimensions (cm): 18.5 x 12.0 x 1.7