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Last Round at Lottie’s: A Funny, Messy, Honest Story About Addiction and Starting Over
A funny, raw, and painfully honest story about falling apart - and clawing your way back.
“Lottie is heartbreakingly real.”
“Sharp, chaotic, and full of hope.”
“I saw myself in every page.”Lottie Penrose isn’t doing fine - though she’s very good at pretending she is. Her mornings start glued to the sofa, her days blur with missed calls and mascara-smudged apologies, and her evenings end in supermarket wine and jokes that cover more than they reveal.
Her best friend Jess sees it long before she does. The lunches where the wine comes too quickly, the flat that smells of lavender spray and excuses, the night she disappears into the kind of silence even friendship can’t fill.
But when Lottie finally reaches the moment she can’t outrun - the quiet, terrifying truth that she’s losing herself - she takes the smallest step she can she asks for help.
What follows isn’t tidy. Or pretty. Or quick. It’s day-three panic, group-therapy biscuits, sober bowling, emotional Wotsits in a car park, and learning to dance in her kitchen without a drink in her hand. As her world cracks and reshapes, Lottie must face the one question she’s avoided for
Can she rebuild a life she actually wants - and can she do it sober?
Last Round at Lottie’s is a warm, witty, and unfiltered look at addiction, friendship, and the tiny, defiant joys that make starting over possible.
This book ends at the beginning. It’s the first honest step.
“Lottie is heartbreakingly real.”
“Sharp, chaotic, and full of hope.”
“I saw myself in every page.”Lottie Penrose isn’t doing fine - though she’s very good at pretending she is. Her mornings start glued to the sofa, her days blur with missed calls and mascara-smudged apologies, and her evenings end in supermarket wine and jokes that cover more than they reveal.
Her best friend Jess sees it long before she does. The lunches where the wine comes too quickly, the flat that smells of lavender spray and excuses, the night she disappears into the kind of silence even friendship can’t fill.
But when Lottie finally reaches the moment she can’t outrun - the quiet, terrifying truth that she’s losing herself - she takes the smallest step she can she asks for help.
What follows isn’t tidy. Or pretty. Or quick. It’s day-three panic, group-therapy biscuits, sober bowling, emotional Wotsits in a car park, and learning to dance in her kitchen without a drink in her hand. As her world cracks and reshapes, Lottie must face the one question she’s avoided for
Can she rebuild a life she actually wants - and can she do it sober?
Last Round at Lottie’s is a warm, witty, and unfiltered look at addiction, friendship, and the tiny, defiant joys that make starting over possible.
This book ends at the beginning. It’s the first honest step.
236 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 23, 2025
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March 27, 2026
Very enjoyable read.
Read the other books and thoroughly enjoyed first book as I had lived that with my dad and can now laugh at it.
This one is my favourite, it isn’t contrived . Lottie’s journey isn’t clean or all rosey.
Read the other books and thoroughly enjoyed first book as I had lived that with my dad and can now laugh at it.
This one is my favourite, it isn’t contrived . Lottie’s journey isn’t clean or all rosey.
January 25, 2026
Good read
This is a very good read it goes to show how easy it is to fall into and hard it is to recover
This is a very good read it goes to show how easy it is to fall into and hard it is to recover
February 18, 2026
Another easy but impactful read
A difficult subject made easy to read following a good character’s journey to a simple but hopeful conclusion. I would recommend.
A difficult subject made easy to read following a good character’s journey to a simple but hopeful conclusion. I would recommend.
March 9, 2026
Very good read
First book I finished in a while, well written :-) not just for ladies either, I am a 50 something gent and still enjoyed it.
First book I finished in a while, well written :-) not just for ladies either, I am a 50 something gent and still enjoyed it.
March 15, 2026
Repetitive for the first half, then slow and dull. No idea why it’s rated so highly. It’s not hard to read because it’s short and small sentences but very boring.
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