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By the Creator of Big Boys: Cheer the F**K Up

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By the Creator of Big Boys: Cheer the F**K Up

By: Jack Rooke
Narrated by: Jack Rooke
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Brought to you by Penguin.

This book will definitely make you laugh and might just make you cry, but it could also help save a life.

Cheer the F--k Up is a bold, brilliant and very personal account of a young comedian’s experiences with mental health. An ode to the importance of friendship, Jack Rooke takes us on a mission to better understand the reasons why so many people are struggling and how we can all feel better equipped in knowing how to support that one friend we might be that bit more worried about.

Part comedic memoir, part advice guide, this book is a fresh and timely take on a huge issue very close to Jack’s heart – in 2015, while working as an ambassador for a male mental health charity, he lost one of his best friends to suicide.

Taking you on a journey through his life and experiences with grief, sexuality, depression and more, Jack offers his own frank and powerful advice on how best to have meaningful conversations about a loved one’s state of mind. Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, Cheer the F--k Up will definitely make you laugh and might just make you cry, but it could also help save a life.

©2020 Jack Rooke (P)2020 Penguin Audio Mental Health Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health Funny Witty Heartfelt Feel-Good Thought-Provoking

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"Cheer the F**K Up is, without a doubt, the most meaningful and funniest book I have ever read on mental health and loss. Jack is a genius (fact) and he weaves together themes of love, grief, sexuality, trauma, growing up, mental health and friendship in a memoir that will stand the test of time. If you are a human living on this planet you need this book! It has never been more important and never been more needed." (Scarlett Curtis)

"Once you've had the pleasure of reading a work by Jack Rooke, you'll have spent time with one of the funniest, warmest, most caring people I've ever known and he'll feel like your new favourite friend. This book deals with difficult topics in such a beautiful, thoughtful and hilarious way. It's the book we all need in our lives.'" (Nicola Coughlan)

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The author writes so beautifully about his experiences you can really feel his loving warm personality come through

The most thoughtful, funny and sweet book

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First audio book I've listened to and absolutely loved it. Sad, insightful and very funny. I can't recommend it enough :)

Brilliant

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Loved this. Came to this through his Big Boys show on C4 and it only made me love him more! Great narration, plus interesting and useful content. Made me laugh AND cry!

Cheered me the F**K up

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Don't get me wrong I loved it, but not for the reasons that I read it. I wanted a laugh from start to finish and not to be getting through a box of tissuesat the same time. As a retired Cancer specialist nurse. It is great for helping someone to come to terms with some aspects of bereavement from Cancer or Suicide. That being interspersed with very funny moments like in Jack's brilliant TV show "Big Boys It makes this a very good listen but after all has been said can we have a good old fashioned laugh the next time you write a novel, especially now the series has come to it's conclusion, brilliant ending I must say, very well done.. Thanks!

An autobiographical bereavement self help manual

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I enjoyed this book as it made me feel connected to the writer and his life events- sad and funny!

Touching and funny. An enjoyable listen.

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