Hold the head high and the middle finger higher

  • The bestselling authors show the emergency exit from the despondency of the stressed woman
  • An honest, funny exchange of two friends between harmony, longing and self-assertion
  • For all Fröhlich-Kleis fans
  • Buying pulse: "I want to learn how other women assert themselves in the second half of life, become braver and take what's rightfully theirs."

The new book of the bestselling duo: Superfood for female self-assertion!


How to react when the father of the child disappears to the office, although he wanted to give his wife free hours for her job? First crying, and then unceremoniously bringing the infant to the company! Susanne Fröhlich did that once. After that, the arrangements worked out. Or when the women's parking space in the parking garage was just occupied by a man? A) Hoping that looks can kill? B) Get out like Constanze Kleis and ask if you can help - after all, vision problems should not be taken lightly ...
Yes, we women can choose: Either quietly and mostly in vain hope for understanding and burden sharing. Or claim what we are entitled to. Of course, there is still some inner and outer resistance to overcome. No problem, with the emotional superfood for female self-assertion that Susanne Fröhlich and Constanze Kleis deliver with their new book. Written with the middle finger, of course.

"If you always want to be really sweet, sooner or later you will be badly disappointed." Susanne Fröhlich and Constanze Kleis

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  • Publisher: Knaur HC
  • Release: 02.10.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-28625-8
  • 272 Pages
  • Authors: Susanne FröhlichConstanze Kleis
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Susanne Fröhlich Constanze Kleis Hold the head high and the middle finger higher
Portrait von Susanne Fröhlich
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Susanne Fröhlich

Susanne Fröhlich is one of the best-known authors in Germany. The writer, journalist and presenter works for Hessischer Rundfunk among other places. Both her non-fiction titles like “Fröhlich fasten” (Fröhlich Fasts) and her novels, most recently, “Verzogen” (Address Unknown), have all become best-sellers including “Moppel-Ich” (Pudgy Me) with over 1 million copies sold. Susanne Fröhlich lives close to Frankfurt am Main.

Portrait von Constanze Kleis
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Constanze Kleis

Journalist and best-selling author  Constanze Kleis lives in Frankfurt. Her books - many of which she has written together with Susanne Fröhlich - have achieved total sales of more than 600,000 copies. Her book, “Jeder Fisch ist schön, wenn er an der Angel hängt” (Every fish is beautiful when it is hanging on a hook) was nominated for the Deutscher Buchpreis. Constanze Kleis has worked for many years for daily papers like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and she has a column in the magazine “Freundin”.