The Anti-Cool Girl: The award-winning bestselling brutal and hilarious memoir and the first Jennette McCurdy book club pick for 2023

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Brutal brave hilarious -- a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you. Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission Rosie was cursed with a near perfect beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while Rosie was still struggling with various toilet mishaps. She soon realised that she was the Doug Pitt to her sisters Brad and that cool was not going to be her currency in this life. But that was only one of the problems Rosie faced. With two addicts for parents she grew up amidst rehab stays AA meetings overdoses narrow escapes from drug dealers and a merry-go-round of dodgy boyfriends in her mothers life. Rosie watched as her dad passed out/was arrested/vomited and had to talk her mum out of killing herself. As an adult trying to come to grips with her less than conventional childhood Rosie navigated her way through eating disorders nude acting roles mental health issues and awkward Tinder dates. Then she had an epiphany: to stop pretending to be who she wasnt and embrace her true self -- a girl who loved drinking wine in her underpants on Sunday nights -- and become an Anti-Cool Girl. An irrepressible blackly comic memoir Rosie Waterlands story is a clarion call for Anti-Cool Girls everywhere. Individual wounded brilliant and hilarious Sydney Morning Herald If Augusten Burroughs and Lena Dunham abandoned their child in an Australian housing estate shed write this heartbreaking hilarious book. It made me laugh uproariously then feel terrible for her then laugh all over again. Sorry Rosie. Dominic Knight The Chaser Hilarious wise gutsy clear-eyed devastating and uplifting. Its a marvel. Richard Glover The Anti Cool Girl was shortlisted for the 2016 Indie Book Awards and for the 2016 ABIA Awards for Biography of the Year and also shortlisted for the 2017 Russell Prize for Humour Writing. She was also the Winner of the 2016 ABIA Awards Peoples Choice for the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year