Funny Girl: Now The Major TV Series Funny Woman Starring Gemma Arterton

Nick Hornby

Nov 2014 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

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?

Ratings and reviews

For me this never hit the heights of some of Nick Hornsby's previous books. I never cared enough about the characters

Another cracker from Hornby , fans must read it and then get their folks to do likewise 😊

I didn't want it to end. I wanted to stay with Sophie in London in the '60s forever.

About the author

Nick Hornby is the author of six bestselling novels (High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down, Juliet, Naked and Funny Girl), as well as a novel for young adults, Slam, and four works of acclaimed non-fiction: Fever Pitch, 31 Songs, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree and Stuff I've Been Reading. He has written the screenplays for the films Fever Pitch, Wild, Brooklyn and An Education, which was nominated for an Oscar. He lives in Highbury, north London.