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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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- Title
- Funny girl
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nick Hornby
- Publisher
- Viking
- Released
- 2014
- ISBN10
- 0241965217
- ISBN13
- 9780241965214
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor, Love, Contemporary Fiction, LGBTQ+, British Literature, England, Society, Great Britain, English Literature, Comedies, London, Actors and Actresses, Television, Success, Homosexuality, Old Age, Adapted into Series, 1960s, Big Book Thursday
- First published
- 2014
- Original title
- Funny Girl
- Rating
- 3.35 out of 5
- Description
- 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?