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Kate Crosby, WTF?
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9781764672504
Publisher: Harbourlight Press
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Kate Crosby spent her childhood in Mount Isa, Queensland, an outback Australian town so small that God wasn't just watching-He was taking notes. Kate was raised in a Catholic family who instilled a rigid, religious sense of right and wrong, a childhood of living in trepidation, in fear of crossing lines and the consequences of doing so. Her first memory was being told, Hands together, Kate. Jesus is watching. Kate learned early through the art of Confession, a scheduled self-esteem destruction, that disappointing people felt weirdly powerful. Her dream was simple, leave Mount Isa as soon as possible and become someone interesting. So she ran. To university. To islands. To London. To New York.
She met her first real friend Zara at university in Brisbane, who believed in Kate before Kate believed in herself. Zara had an unwavering confidence that Kate's stories-funny, awkward, vulnerable-mattered and encouraged Kate to write a blog. WTF? started as a joke about university life and grew into something accidentally honest. Through heartbreak, career chaos, and Zara's traumatic cancer diagnosis, Kate's blog evolved.
At 30 years of age, Kate finally learned that life was a choice, a daily choice to show up and be present. And that felt like freedom. She met Sebastian, kind smart and funny, who made her want to be brave. She stopped running and built a life. Kate tried to believe that staying - really staying - wasn't a trap. That it wasn't a failure of imagination. That it might, just possibly, be the bravest thing she'd ever done. But sometimes at night when she couldn't sleep, no matter how hard she tried to outrun it - the itch she'd carried her whole life, the quiet urge to disappear just as things began to matter - it never really left her.
This book is perfect for fans of:
- Funny/Witty
- Coming of Age
- Emotional Growth
- Dating
- Travel
- Blogs
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