Life Is Tough (But So Are You): How to rise to the challenge when things go pear-shaped

Briony Benjamin was working as an executive producer at Mamamia when, at 31, she was diagnosed with stage 4 blood cancer. She documented the experience in a video, You Only Get One Life, that went viral - and then sat down to write the book she wishes had existed when she was first diagnosed.

Life Is Tough (But So Are You) collects what she learned through illness and recovery: how to assemble an A-team when a crisis hits, how to make friends with the pain rather than fight it, and how to be a genuinely useful human when a friend is the one going through it.

It is written for anyone in a hard season - grief, a breakup, miscarriage, chronic fatigue, job loss, financial trouble, anxiety, overwhelm or burnout - and describes itself as a 100% toxic-positivity-free zone: bright, hopeful and full of practical things you can actually do.