Funny Girl

Now The Major TV Series Funny Woman Starring Gemma Arterton

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: Emma Fielding

Brought to you by Penguin.

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

An ok entertainment

Not the best Hornby but still a good listen. Rather enjoyed the readers performance. Good language as always from Hornby

A bit disappointed

I don't know if it's because it's the first audio book I've listened to, or some other reason, but I really couldn't get into the story as much as with every other Nick Hornby book I've read. I saw it through to the end, but have to admit I tuned out at times and struggled to get to the end. Having said that, I wouldn't discourage anyone from reading or listening to it, it just wasn't my cup of tea on this occasion.