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Make them laugh, and they're yours forever . . .
Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She wants to make people laugh.
So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself to London, and overnight she becomes the lead in a new BBC comedy, Sophie Straw: charming, gorgeous, destined to win the nation's hearts.
Funny Girl is the story of a smash-hit TV show and the people behind the scenes. But when life starts imitating art, they all face a choice. How long can they keep going before it's time to change the channel?
'Simply unputdownable' Guardian
'Hilarious' Daily Telegraph
'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times
'Warm, funny, touching . . . winningly perceptive about human relationships and changing social trends' Daily Telegraph
'Like all Hornby's best work, it is both hugely enjoyable and deceptively artful' Spectator
'A beguiling, thoroughly enjoyable read' Sunday Times
'Hugely enjoyable' Sunday Mirror
'Resolutely, winningly light-hearted' Observer
'Hornby's sunniest novel' Metro
©2014 Nick Hornby (P)2014 Penguin Audio
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 06/11/2014
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ISBN: 9780241971802
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Length: 617 Minutes
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RRP: £11.00
Reviews
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Highly entertaining . . . a beguiling, thoroughly enjoyable read
Sunday Times
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Simply unputdownable
Guardian
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Warm, funny, touching . . . winningly perceptive about human relationships and changing social trends
Daily Telegraph
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So simple, so easy to read and yet so sensitive and profound at the same time. This is a world that feels real and one you don't want to leave
Independent on Sunday
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Like all Hornby's best work, it is both hugely enjoyable and deceptively artful
Spectator
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Everything Hornby writes is addictively readable and clever, but with Funny Girl he has surpassed himself
Red
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Hornby's sunniest novel
Metro
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Nick Hornby is pretty much always poignant and hilarious
Huffington Post
