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If I Knew Then

Jann Arden

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English
Prentice Hall Press
15 March 2022
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Jann Arden--bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star--is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Jann Arden-bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star-is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.

Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun- ""Being the age I am-that so many women are-is just the best time of my life.""

Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self-and all of us-that fear and avoidance is no way to live. ""What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death,"" she writes, ""but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose-not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures.""
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Imprint:   Prentice Hall Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 132mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9780735279995
ISBN 10:   0735279993
Pages:   216
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

JANN ARDEN is a singer, songwriter, actor, author and social media star. The celebrated multi-platinum, award-winning artist was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2021. She continues to record and tour, and in 2022 released her fifteenth album, Descendant. She has written four books, including a memoir of her early life and path to music, Falling Backwards, and her two #1 bestselling works of nonfiction, Feeding My Mother and If I Knew Then, and a #1 bestselling novel The Bittlemores. She is the host of The Jann Arden Podcast, where she and her guests explore what makes humans authentically themselves, and she starred in the hit TV sitcom Jann, inspired by her own life.

Reviews for If I Knew Then

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Storyteller. Counsellor. Life coach. Canadian singer Jann Arden wears all those hats-and more-in her latest memoir . . . If I Knew Then will strike vibrato chords with readers. Like her song lyrics, Arden's phrasing is simple, authentic and rich. It resonates. She wears her wounds on her sleeve, and isn't afraid to show her scars. -Winnipeg Free Press Praise for Jann Arden: The type of free-spirited, brutally truthful woman who can stand toe to toe with any man or woman. Funny and not afraid to sprinkle an interview with helpings of words your mother would never allow in the house, Arden is two parts poet and one part your crazy aunt. -The Toronto Sun [Jann Arden is] abundantly and humorously generous with herself in public. . . . No doubt Arden holds some secrets, some passions, some pain close to the vest, but, like the best gossip in the neighbourhood, she diverts our attention with titillating yarns. -Toronto Star


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