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Funny Girl

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Funny Girl

By: Nick Hornby
Narrated by: Emma Fielding
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SOON TO BE A TV SERIES STARRING GEMMA ARTERTON AND RUPERT EVERETT

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

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Critic Reviews

Highly entertaining . . . a beguiling, thoroughly enjoyable read
Simply unputdownable
Warm, funny, touching . . . winningly perceptive about human relationships and changing social trends
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
Like all Hornby's best work, it is both hugely enjoyable and deceptively artful
Everything Hornby writes is addictively readable and clever, but with Funny Girl he has surpassed himself
Hornby's sunniest novel
Nick Hornby is pretty much always poignant and hilarious
All stars
Most relevant
One of the most engaging audio books I've listened too. Great characters, funny, moving and thoughtful.

Excellent

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Well written and narrated . Prepare to be entertained . Nostalgic look at the 60s with colourful characters. Looking for more Hornsby books .

Excellent

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the book was a meandering tale where not much happened. maybe it's just the wrong book for me. i was glad when it ended as it's exhausting waiting for a story to get better and when it doesn't its better to lay it to rest.
i like Nick Hornby stories generally and I'm sorry to say that i couldn't write something more positive.
good luck with the next book

not that funny

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