How to Fail Everything I’Ve Ever Learned from Things Going Wrong
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Biografisk notat
Elizabeth Day is the author of four 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, and The Party was an Amazon bestseller and a Richard & Judy bookclub pick. She is also an award-winning journalist and has written extensively for The Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Observer, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle. She is currently a columnist for the Mail on Sunday's You magazine and host of the iTunes chart-topping podcast, How To Fail With Elizabeth Day.
<p>‘A book full of wisdom, humour, humility, tenderness and heart. Elizabeth Day’s beautiful, reassuring stories and observations are a guide to self-compassion, a celebration of all things imperfect and will galvanise you to try, try again’ Dolly Alderton, author of <em>Everything I Know About Love</em></p>
<p>'<em>How To Fail </em>has rapidly become my essential companion in this over-competitive, demanding world. By turns profound, witty, and extremely reassuring, Elizabeth Day's sublime deconstruction of the myth of 'success' – and the journey to find our own markers of contentment – is a life-changing gift to us all.' Jessie Burton, author of <em>The Muse</em></p>
<p>'Brilliant Elizabeth Day, who you could probably trust to talk eloquently about anything' <em>Evening Standard</em></p>
<p>'Brilliant … Covering everything from job rejections to failed IVF attempts, this podcast will make you feel better about life when things aren’t going to plan’ <em>Harper's Bazaar</em></p>
<p>'Funny and insightful' <em>Grazia</em></p>
<p>'It’s really quite special' <em>Red</em></p>
<p>'Whip-smart celebrations of things going, well, wrong' <em>Emerald Street</em></p>
<p>'Listening to this show is cathartic; failure is a constant experience shared by so many, and being open is not a bad thing’ <em>BuzzFeed</em></p>
<p>‘Tender and insightful, as well as acerbically funny’ <em>Reader’s Digest</em></p>
*** Elizabeth Day’s new novel, One of Us, is available to pre-order now from Amazon. Out 25th September 2025. ***
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.
• Now in its fifth series, the How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast has accrued over 2 million downloads, and charted in the top 3 on iTunes. It has featured guest appearances from Dolly Alderton, Lily Allen, Nigel Slater, 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.
• 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 (182k), Mad Girl (87k) and Notes on a Nervous Planet (120k) 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
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Elizabeth Day is the author of four 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, and The Party was an Amazon bestseller and a Richard & Judy bookclub pick. She is also an award-winning journalist and has written extensively for The Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Observer, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle. She is currently a columnist for the Mail on Sunday's You magazine and host of the iTunes chart-topping podcast, How To Fail With Elizabeth Day.