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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SOON TO BE A TV SERIES STARRING GEMMA ARTERTON AND RUPERT EVERETT

''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 relationshi

Trade Review
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 *

Funny Girl

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 7 May 2015
      ISBN-13 9780241965221
      978-0241965221
      ISBN-10 0241965225
      Also in:
      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SOON TO BE A TV SERIES STARRING GEMMA ARTERTON AND RUPERT EVERETT

      ''Simply unputdownable''       Guardian

      ''Hilarious'' Daily Telegraph

      ''Highly entertaining'' Sunday Times
      _________________

      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?
      ______________

      ''Warm, funny, touching . . . winningly perceptive about human relationshi

      Trade Review
      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 *

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