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Book Synopsis''DEEPLY HONEST, SURPRISINGLY HILARIOUS AND UPLIFTING'' The Pool
''HEART-WARMING: UNMISSABLE'' Damian Barr, Metro
Susan Calman is a much-loved comedian and writer who has appeared on countless radio and television programmes from The News Quiz and Just a Minute to Armchair Detectives and Secret Scotland. She''s hosted the podcast Mrs Brightside and stole the nation''s hearts in Strictly Come Dancing. Her breakout solo stand up show, Susan Calman is Convicted, dealt with subjects like the death penalty, appearance and depression.
It was the overwhelming and positive reaction to the show she wrote about mental health that made Susan want to write a more detailed account of surviving depression when you''re the world''s most negative and anxious person.
The Crab of Hate is the personification of Calman''s depression and her version of the notorious
Trade Review
Susan Calman never fails to make me hoot with laughter * Sarah Millican *
Fantastic, funny, moving... A perceptive look at depression - with added laughs' * Viv Groskop *
The forthcoming, heartbreaking and heart-warming memoir from the Radio 4 favourite... Avoiding all the usual 'tears of a clown' clichés, she tackles homophobia, self-harm and finding your voice. Unmissable * Damian Barr, Metro *
Deeply personal and painfully honest but funny * The Times Scotland *
Calman's account of depression, though deeply honest, is surprisingly hilarious and uplifting * Hannah Varrell, The Pool *
There are so many depressing books about being funny, so it's refreshing to ready a funny one about about being depressed. I have never laughed quite so heartily at someone else's genuine distress - which I hope is her intention * Miles Jupp *
A really important message, but hilarious at the same time * BBC The One Show *
Talked with engaging candour and humour about her own struggle to keep it at bay * Scotsman (Edinburgh Book Festival coverage) *
A breezily accessible account * Metro *
Wonderfully funny * BBC Woman's Hour *
Candid and often laugh-out-loud-funny... There's no sense that Cheer Up Love is a deliberate act of catharsis or an attempt to hasten any kind of healing process. Instead Calman presents herself as a woman who has already come to terms with who she is * Sunday Herald *
A compelling memoir... engaging insight... Susan's outstanding sense of humour shines through to create an uplifting survival handbook * The Lady *
This is a book that everyone should read, and not only because it makes a serious issue both engaging and instructive... a vital account of mental ill-health * The National *
A wonderful and honest book. I thoroughly endorse this product * Emma Kennedy *
This is a book that, like a female stereotype, multitasks. For those who suffer from bouts of depression and mental illness it provides solace, understanding and advice. For those living with or close to people suffering from depression, it gives you insight into why some of your well meant but unhelpful or even damaging suggestions seem to fall on deaf ears. If you picked it up purely to find out what makes Susan Calman tick, where she comes from and incidents that shaped the comedian and writer here today, there's that too! * Kate Stone, Funny Women *
More use than a standard self-help book * National *
Her story is a pleasure to read... Calman's warmth and humour shines through * AND Guide *
***PRAISE FOR SUSAN CALMAN***
Glasgow-born comic Calman is a dead-cert-one-to-watch; she's got an infectious bubbly manner but a caustic edge too, and both can yield comedy gold
* Guardian *
Feisty Scot Calman is
one of the best female comics to ever come out of the land of bagpipes and haggis. She'll make you chuckle your pants off * Time Out *
Calman fizzed manic energy, alternating between confessional tales and playing with facts she teased out of the audience * Edinburgh Evening News *
surely prove as useful for those in contact with depressives as it is for sufferers... the authenticity of her stories resonates more than any more formal study of depression ever could...
darkly funny. * Chortle *
