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The Anti-Cool Girl
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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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 sister's 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 mother's 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 wasn't 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 Waterland's 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, she'd 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. It's 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 in addition was the Winner of the 2016 ABIA Awards People's Choice for the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year
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- Anonymous User
- 17-04-2019
A truly honest memoir
Confronting at times but so wonderfully honest. If you can't relate to any of Rosie's story you are lying to yourself. More please.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-06-2022
An Honest Story
This book is an awesome, brutally honest and gritty read, I couldn't put it down.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-04-2023
Powerfully Beautiful
This powerful beautiful life story will touch your heart and make you laugh cry & sometimes cringe. Such a gift to share your life with us Rosie thank you for making it cool to be anti cool 😉
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- Penny
- 03-07-2019
Love this narrator .. and enjoyed the book
Frank graphic funny and sad in places. A fitting narrator. Will try other from same author
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- Bronwyn Woods
- 21-08-2020
Spectacular
Raw, witty, emotional, shocking ......just spectacular.
The honesty of her life will shine a different light on everything in your own life. Read this book. It will end up being in your all time top 10!
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- Anonymous User
- 28-08-2022
great read
I had never heard of Rosie before this book. But, I downloaded it after a recommendation and loved it
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- Anonymous User
- 12-11-2023
Perfection
I’m so late to the party to pick up this book but I suppose it was meant to come to me when it did. Rosie writes with such incredible wisdom, brutal vulnerability and humour that I feel like I’ve lost a friend now that it’s over.
This book is both wildly entertaining and therapy. Loved every chapter.
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- Cassy
- 20-01-2021
Amazing
This is a must read/listen. It is funny and heartbreaking all at the same time.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-08-2019
Couldn’t stop listening
The honesty & humour in some trying situations makes you realise it’s okay not to be cool. Thank you x
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- Anonymous User
- 06-02-2020
Honest, hilarious and just brilliant!
I’m super late to the ‘Rosie’ party but am so glad I found my way!!
I went running in 38 degree heat just as an excuse to listen, and my house work was up to date!
Her honesty and humour and realness is brilliant!
Thanks for sharing Rosie...
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