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Funny Girl

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241965221

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 248g

  • RRP: £8.99

Funny Girl

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of HIGH FIDELITY and ABOUT A BOY

'Simply unputdownable' Guardian

'Hilarious' Daily Telegraph

'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times
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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?
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'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

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241965221

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 248g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Highly entertaining . . . a beguiling, thoroughly enjoyable read

    Sunday Times

  • Simply unputdownable

    Guardian

  • Warm, funny, touching . . . winningly perceptive about human relationships and changing social trends

    Daily Telegraph

  • 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

  • Like all Hornby's best work, it is both hugely enjoyable and deceptively artful

    Spectator

  • Everything Hornby writes is addictively readable and clever, but with Funny Girl he has surpassed himself

    Red

  • Hornby's sunniest novel

    Metro

  • Nick Hornby is pretty much always poignant and hilarious

    Huffington Post

  • Fans won't be disappointed by this new story... endearing, humorous and touching, full of spot-on period detail, all brought to vivid life by a cast of very human characters. Hugely enjoyable

    Sunday Mirror

  • Resolutely, winningly light-hearted

    Observer

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About the Author

Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby is the bestselling author of eight novels, including High Fidelity and About a Boy, and several works of non-fiction including his ground-breaking debut, Fever Pitch. He has written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and, most recently, State of the Union.

Nick Hornby

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