Happy, Thank You. More, Please. : How I got grateful, stayed mortified, and learned to trust the universe.

'Kyla filters the world through her actual lived experience and turns it into stories that are hilarious and almost impossibly true. There's nobody like Kyla.' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of EAT, PRAY, LOVE

'Joyful, funny, yet incredibly moving . . . Unpretentious yet uplifting' JENNIE GODFREY, author of THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS

When I was twenty-one, a woman introduced me to five magic words that changed my life: Happy, thank you. More, please.

Kyla Cobbler's path to self-love hasn't run smoothly. From making questionable dating decisions, to using booze to quell her constant Irish state of mortification, to getting arrested for drug smuggling - sometimes it's been hard to believe the universe has her back.

But when Kyla began opening herself up to gratitude - for the tiny victories, not just the big firework moments - she began to realise that she had the power to create her own happiness.

Happy, thank you. More, please. chronicles Kyla's journey from performing as the person she thought she should be, to discovering the chaotic, unapologetically imperfect woman she actually is. It's a book about falling in love with your real self - not because you've fixed everything, but because you've stopped trying to.

Author: Kyla Cobbler

Film, TV & radio, Performing arts: comedy, Memoirs, Feminism & feminist theory, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Coping with drug & alcohol abuse

Published on 3 Sep 2026 by Octopus Publishing Group.