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Life and other Happy Endings

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Brilliantly funny and thought-provoking--an absolute joy.

I LOVE this book! It is full of heart and hope.

Quirky, funny and hugely readable, this is a story about the power of friendship and sisterhood, as well as love and loss.

This novel is going to provoke the most brilliant conversations around the water coolers!

Without doubt Melanie Cantor’s Death and Other Happy Endings should be at the top of your summer reading list. This book is full of life and hope...A rollicking page turner.

Melanie Sykes, BEST Recommended Summer Reads

Filled with warmth and wit. Will make you want to throw on your saved-for-best dress and live your own life to the fullest

A book to cancel plans for - you won't want to put it down

Cantor strikes plenty of witty, hopeful notes

Reminds us to live life with no limits

A spirited feel-good story that made me smile, and think

Filled with warmth and wit. Will make you want to throw on your saved-for-best dress and live your own life to the fullest

A book to cancel plans for – you won’t want to put it down.

Cantor strikes plenty of witty, hopeful notes

Engaging heroine! ... There's plenty of drama in Melanie Cantor's debut, which reminds us to live life with no limits.

Witty, very touching and entirely unexpected

A spirited feel-good story that made me smile, and think. 
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I LOVE this book! I read it at high speed. How brilliant to read about a grown-up who is also funny and makes mistakes, in a novel that is full of heart and hope without any stupid bucket lists.

Written with energy and sparkle, it is such a clever idea which makes you think.

Bursting with heart and charm, Cantor serves up a wonderfully warm take on love, loss, and second chances

Hannah Orenstein, author of Playing with Matches

Totally wonderful: Funny and heart-warming and insightful about relationships and how people operate. Everybody’s going to be reading it this summer.

A brisk, witty tale of saving your life by finding your voice.

[An] accomplished debut….Twists push the story in intriguing directions, and the clever, personable voice of Jennifer is like that of a witty friend with a bad news/good news story to tell, resulting in a moving novel with a surprisingly playful edge.

This novel is going to provoke the most brilliant conversations around the water coolers!

Brilliantly funny and thought-provoking--an absolute joy.

Rosie Walsh, New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted and The Man Who Didn't Call

Without doubt Melanie Cantor’s Death and Other Happy Endings should be at the top of your summer reading list.  This book is full of life and hope...A rollicking page turner, it will stay with you long after you’ve closed its beautifully designed covers.

So readable - Melanie brings such humour to a usually tragic subject. It gallops along!

'Brilliantly funny and thought-provoking - an absolute joy' ROSIE WALSH, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn't Call 
 
'I LOVE this book! It is full of heart and hope' CATHY KELLY, bestselling author of Sisterhood 
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Three letters. Two mistakes. One Last chance. 
 
When Jennifer Cole is told she has three months to live she decides to write three letters sharing the desires, fears and frustrations she has always kept to herself. And at first she finds that telling the truth makes her feel free and liberated. 
 
But three months later, Jennifer's secrets are alive and out in the world . . . and so is she. As she discovers, sometimes the truth has a way of surprising you . . . 
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READERS HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH LIFE & OTHER HAPPY ENDINGS: 
 
'Incredibly funny and immensely moving.' ***** 
 
'I couldn't put this book down. Witty, touching and uplifting with a plot full of twists and turns.' ***** 
 
'This book was like a breath of fresh air from start to finish.' *****

The witty, hopeful and uplifting read for Summer

'Brilliantly funny and thought-provoking' (Rosie Walsh). The ultimate feelgood fiction which asks big questions: If your life was going to end tomorrow, what would you do today?

Melanie Cantor worked for many years in PR and as a celebrity talent agent. She also dabbled in interior renovations, which led to her hosting the Channel 4 series Making Space, in which she tidied up people’s messy houses. She has since concentrated on writing. Her first novel, Life 
and Other Happy Endings, was published in 2019. She has two grown-up sons and lives in Dorset and London with her dog, Mabel.

From the author of The F**k It! List, the ultimate feelgood fiction which asks big questions: If your life was going to end tomorrow, what would you do today? 
 
'Brilliantly funny and thought-provoking - an absolute joy' Rosie Walsh, author of The Man Who Didn't Call 
 
'I LOVE this book! It is full of heart and hope' Cathy Kelly Cathy Kelly 
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Three letters. Two mistakes. One Last chance. 
When Jennifer Cole is told she has three months to live she decides to write three letters sharing the desires, fears and frustrations she has always kept to herself. And at first she finds that telling the truth makes her feel free and liberated. 
 
But three months later, Jennifer's secrets are alive and out in the world . . . and so is she. As she discovers, sometimes the truth has a way of surprising you . . . 
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Readers are falling in love with Life & Other Happy Endings! 
 
***** 'Incredibly funny and immensely moving.' 
***** 'I couldn't put this book down. Witty, touching and uplifting with a plot full of twists and turns.' 
***** 'This book was like a breath of fresh air from start to finish.' 
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Life & Other Happy Endings was first published as Death & Other Happy Endings

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