and Come Back Stronger

How to Face Big Change

Helen Thorn is an award-winning comedian, podcaster and Sunday Times-bestselling author. She is one half of the successful comedy duo Scummy Mummies and travels around the UK performing in a gold catsuit. She is widely known for her honest and hilarious takes on parenthood, fitness and being a single mum. After her divorce, she went from being a broken mess to becoming a marathon-running enthusiast, and has recently completed all the World Majors. She lives in London in a wonky wooden house with two teens and two fat cats. She is five (ten) minutes late to everything, and never has a clean kitchen table.

How do you rebuild your life, when suddenly everything changes? How do you start to make sense of this new world you inhabit, this new path you didn’t know you had to walk down. Who are you now? Who do you trust? How do you recover? Will the pain ever go away? 
 
When you are sideswiped by a catastrophic head fuck out of your control, the prospect of putting the pieces back together without instruction can feel utterly impossible and hopeless. 
 
Led by the author’s own epic journey to rediscovering love and laughter again, How to Face Big Change will give you the building blocks for recovery. This is not an instruction manual, and there are no rules, but it will guide you through this new phase of your life and empower you to become a stronger, more badass you! 
 
You will be inspired by women who have all had their lives thrown up in the air, and you’ll see that they not only survived, but thrived, and discovered strength, courage and happiness they didn’t know existed. Their heart-warming stories, practical wisdom, hard-won advice, and honest and hilarious confessions, will leave you feeling inspired and ready to get back up and rebuild your life.

Helen Thorn

A big hug in a book for anyone going through separation or divorce

Helen is the woman I want in my life when the shit hits the fan. She makes me smile, even at the darkest of times

Like a best mate in a book to guide you through hell - and out the other side via belly laughs, firefighters and finding joy in a new way of living

Helen is a superwoman. She is honest, open and makes us giggle without making us feel guilty for laughing. Her heart is full of love

It's not over when it's over - what you need to know is here

The one thing I needed in the wake of my divorce was hope - Helen's book slathers a big dollop of happy-salve onto the wounds you may be trying to heal

How becoming single can turn out to be your happy ever after

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
'Helen is the woman I want in my life when the shit hits the fan' - Bryony Gordon 
 
What do you do when your relationship suddenly ends? How do you cope when the cosy 'coupley' future you had planned disappears? 
 
Join comedian Helen Thorn from The Scummy Mummies as she haphazardly takes the plunge into single life for the first time in twenty-two years. 
 
 Helen shares her own roller coaster journey from the initial shock of a surprise separation, the messy months hanging out in her PJs through to the highs of rediscovering online dating, tiny pants, rock-solid female friendships and the glorious joy of just being by herself. 
 
With the help of relationship experts and an army of women "who know", Get Divorced, Be Happy will show you that going it alone isn't the end, it is just the beginning, and you will come out the other side, stronger, happier and goddamn sassier than ever before.

Get Divorced, Be Happy

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A big hug in a book for anyone going through separation or divorce

Helen is the woman I want in my life when the shit hits the fan. She makes me smile, even at the darkest of times

Brutally honest and frequently hilarious

A big hug in a book for anyone going through separation or divorce

Helen is the woman I want in my life when the shit hits the fan. She makes me smile, even at the darkest of times

Brutally honest and frequently hilarious

A big hug in a book for anyone going through separation or divorce

Helen is the woman I want in my life when the shit hits the fan. She makes me smile, even at the darkest of times

Brutally honest and frequently hilarious

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