

Why not? No matter what I do, there will always be something about me that reads as simply, outrageously audacious.

Secrets are my favourite things to be told and I figured I’d better tell a few juicy ones myself, too. How To Attract Toxic Men… AND Keep Them Interested!.How to Waste All Your Money on Designer Dogs.How To Be the Most Popular Girl in School.The Audacity is my chance to share my blueprint for just that. I’m often asked how I developed my lurid level of courage and assurance and for tips on how others can match. As my mother always said, “Katherine, if we all liked the same thing, we’d all be married to your father.” I embrace the reality that you just can’t please everyone, so you might as well put yourself out there and have a laugh. How audacious is that? I can always take a joke, I don’t waste time worrying about things I can’t control. Whatever strangers think of me is fine with me. But mostly, I’m just sat eating pickles and being nice to some dogs. People “know” my on-stage comedy persona or my scripted ballsy characters and wrongly assume that I must stomp around all day in designer dresses eviscerating those who dare to cross my path. “I’ve come to accept that being audacious is a gift I can’t escape.”

Blurbįrom the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and dangerously astute handbook of life instruction. I’m a big fan of Katherine Ryan’s sassy, no-nonsense stand up so I picked her book up on a whim and, in short, I’m glad I did. I really caught the non-fiction reading bug last year and I was more than happy for this book, The Audacity, to be my first one of 2022. Like Bridgerton #1, I read this book back in February and – in an effort to get out of a blogging (and general life) funk – I thought I’d share my thoughts on it (if I get back into the blogging rhythm, getting back into life rhythm will surely follow, right?).
