By the Creator of Big Boys: Cheer the F**K Up
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Jack Rooke
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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 AudioCritic Reviews
"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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- Josh
- 10-11-2024
wonderful & inciteful
deeply moving & wonderfully inciteful, its rare to feel such vulnerability Oozing from the words entering one' head, vulnerability much needed for the points to hit home the way that they do. equal parts motivating & evoking a desire to give the author a comforting hypothetical hug, the reader is ultimately left better-educated & buoyantly resilient to life's tragedies with the reassurance that things can get better no matter what. Just please, reach out and ask before it becomes too much.
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- Jack Breen
- 03-12-2022
Sweet, funny, sad, moving, helpful
I found out about Jack after watching his incredible show Big Boys (hope this comes to a streaming service in Australia soon!) - and now can’t get enough of writer, comedian and mental health advocate Jack Rooke. Almost a bit of a behind the scenes of what seems to be the semi-autobiographical TV show. Still has that perfect level of humour but important core message. Thanks Jack - and well done on this book. Please make more TV comedy series!!!
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