Elizabeth Day

Part memoir, part manifesto, Elizabeth Day 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. Inspired by her popular podcast, this is a funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong.

Four strangers, each inhabitants of the same city, where the gulf between those who have too much and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when the glass that separates their worlds is shattered by an inexcusable act, they discover that the capital has connected them in ways they could never have imagined.