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Some people make your life better. Some make it considerably more complicated. And some have you wondering why you answered the bloody phone in the first place. Cut ’Em Off, Keep Carrie Ann is Wayward Milne’s funny, frank and sometimes uncomfortable look at friendships, family, loyalty, guilt and the people we allow into our lives. Drawing on childhood memories, difficult relationships, arguments that refuse to die and his own talent for being a grumpy old bastard, Wayward asks why we keep people around long after we’ve stopped enjoying their company — and whether we might occasionally be part of the problem ourselves. There are stories of bullying, friendships gone wrong, unwanted advice, apologies that change nothing and the exhausting business of trying to keep everybody happy. There’s also the rather awkward matter of looking in the mirror and admitting that perhaps everybody else isn’t always to blame. And then there’s Carrie Ann. A book about boundaries, self-examination and recognising the people who genuinely matter — without pretending that relationships, or the people in them, are ever quite that simple.