Weirdo

Sara Pascoe is a highly acclaimed comedian and writer. On TV she has performed her solo show LadsLadsLads (BBC2) as well as hosting Live at the Apollo appearing on numerous panel shows and fronting the much loved The Great British Sewing Bee (BBC1). She also wrote and starred in the autobiographical sitcom Out of Her Mind (BBC). <i>Animal</i> her lauded first book was a personal and evolutionary exploration of the female body. Her second book <i>Sex Power Money</i> examined porn and transactional sex and was a <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller. The accompanying podcast garnered millions of listens and multiple award nominations during its run. <i>Weirdo</i> is Pascoe's debut novel. The Weirdos Book Club podcast is a sisterly offshoot celebrating the perceived outsiders in literature hosted by Sara with Cariad Lloyd. <b>The debut novel from the bestselling and award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe.</b> A tremendously exciting voice. Pascoe has something to say and a thoroughly engaging way of saying it. Part of the joy of <i>Weirdo</i><i> </i>is not knowing what to expect or rather in having your expectations subverted by Sophie's smoothie-maker of a mind...This off-kilter perceptiveness manifests as the kind of precise observations you might expect from stand-up Pascoe: the crowdfunding hell of modern weddings the bitter rivalry of unlikely sisters the kinds of shit jobs people have when they move to London without a plan...Very funny. Pascoe is equally good though on the unfunny bits... this [debut novel] will stick with you for a long time. Oh my god. Sara Pascoe's <i>Weirdo</i> is INTENSE and also BRILLIANT. The thwarted confusion and rage of a woman living in a world designed for men. It's so dark but also funny and forensically astute. Definitely not your average (a huge compliment). You've never been inside a head like Sophie's - Sara Pascoe has written a book that is both quietly profound and laughing-in-public funny <i>Weirdo</i><i> </i>is moving and bittersweet and clever. I feel like I haven't seen a character like Sophie anywhere ever before . . . As well as all the laughs it<i> </i>is a very tender book - imagining 'how to be worthy of boybands' lyrics' as a teenager made me flip inside out with recognition. As did a lot of Sophie's inner workings . . . I love it. A tragicomic masterpiece. Sara's voice is so piercing and powerful. Sophie's raw vulnerability is scarily and brilliantly resonant. It's moving vivid and real and it will stay with me for a long time. Very very funny. It's also brilliantly acutely observed. But it's much more than a comic novel: it's also bleak and moving and disturbing in some really interesting ways . . . The ending is sublime one of the best final pages I've read. If Camus was raised in Essex and lived in the patriarchy this is the book he would have written. A book for all the weirdos out there finding their way in the world hilarious and heartbreaking at every sentence. Just brilliant. You might expect it to be funny - and it absolutely is but the humour is always anchored in spot-on observation rather than slapstick. It also co-exists with something much darker and sadder. . . <i>Weirdo</i> evolves into a far deeper meditation on how it feels to be lost - in your relationship your family your job and even your own mind. It reminded me of Susannah Dickey's <i>Tennis Lessons</i> or Naoise Dolan's <i>Exciting Times</i> but with a narrative verve all of its own. So idiosyncratic and yet universal . . . Profound and moving and absolute genius. It has made me think and laugh so much. I fell in LOVE with <i>Weirdo</i> and the characters. . . You will fly through this incredible read. At times I laughed out loud at the beautifully interweaved jokes which is not something I am used to doing while reading a novel. A stunner of a book. Tender trenchant guffaws galore and hot with heart-break. It's truly brilliant. Feverish and funny. Genuinely hilarious. Funny and deeply relatable . . . Pascoe brings her quirky observational comedy to the story of a young woman navigating the trials of life - love money purpose - while trying to seem normal. <b>THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN WRITER AND ACTOR SARA PASCOE</b><br><b></b><br><b>'Moving and bittersweet and clever . . . I love it.' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH</b><br><b>'Hilarious and heartbreaking at every sentence.' CARIAD LLOYD</b><br><b>'Quietly profound and laughing-in-public funny.' CAITLIN MORAN</b><br><b>'A tragicomic masterpiece.' DAISY BUCHANAN</b><br><b>'A deep meditation on how it feels to be lost - in your relationship your family your job and even your own mind.' ELIZABETH DAY</b><br><b>'Funny sad engaging Pascoe nails everything that confronts women today.' </b><i><b>STYLIST</b></i><br><i></i><b>'Funny and deeply relatable.' <i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br><b>'A tremendously exciting voice.' <i>THE TIMES</i></b><br><b><i></i>'An incredible read.' AISLING BEA</b><br><b></b><br><i>I hope since our chat he thinks I'm normal . . . I told him that I was several times.</i><br><br>Deep in Essex and her own thoughts Sophie had a feeling something was going to happen and then it did. Chris has entered the pub and re-entered her life. Just as she's finally stopped thinking about him. Now Sophie has a chance at creating a happier ending and paying off her emotional debts (if not her financial ones). All she has to do is act exactly like a normal person and not say any of her inner monologue out loud. If she can suppress her light paranoia and pathological lying maybe she'll even end up getting the guy she wants? <br><br><b><i>What readers are saying:</i></b><br>'Acutely and profoundly observed.'<br>'Brilliantly relatable and painfully honest.'<br>'A book that will make you laugh think and feel a little bit better about being yourself.'<br>'A funny insightful and unusual perspective on growing into yourself.'<br>'This is one of the best novels I've read in a long time.'