A Book for Her
$35.55
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2016
Summary
The hilarious memoir from award winning comedian Bridget Christie.
Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women’s Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever.
A Book For Her details Christie’s twelve years of anonymous toil in the bowels of stand-up comedy and the sudden epiphany that made her, unbelievably, one of the most critically acclaimed British stand-up comedians this decade…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099590842 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099590840 |
| Author: | Bridget Christie |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“Vulnerable, courageous and very funny.” – Stylist
A cool, clear glass of sane in a world of unbearable woo-hoo. * Caitlin Moran *A great feminist stand up, who gets us feminists to laugh at ourselves, as well as at the dinosaurs. * Mary Beard *Fabulous feminist polemical memoir from one of the funniest most astringent women working the upper tier of the British comedy circuit. Scrap that, she’s just one of the best in entertainment. * Grazia *Part memoir, part laughter-filled rant … Christie is a lively narrator and provides a sharp balance of hilarity and ideology. A Book For Her is both a searingly accurate portrayal of 21-century womanhood and a proper hoot. * Independent *Charm, passion and gallons of wit. Funny books seldom come so committed, nor committed books much funnier. * Sunday Telegraph *Bloody excellent. * Sarah Millican *Vulnerable, courageous and very funny * Stylist *Rewriting the feminist agenda … a must read. * Red Magazine *A voice so idiosyncratic that it transfers uncannily well from stage to page … it’s courageous, but more than that: it is very funny. * Guardian *Comics will find much sage advice in its pages; others simply a commonsense perspective on the world. It’s a book for everyone then, not just ‘for her’. * i *
About The Author
Bridget Christie
Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor. She is the winner of the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award (2013), South Bank Sky Arts Award for Comedy (2014), Rose D’Or International Broadcasting Award (2014) and four Chortle comedy industry awards, voted for by comedy fans, from 2014 and 2015. She was also nominated for a Radio Academy Award (2014) and a British Comedy Award for Best Female Television Comic (2014). Her 2013 show A Bic for Her became the top-selling comedy show at the Soho Theatre ever. Bridget can also load and fire a 17th century musket (though not while under pressure or any time constraints), scuba dive and drive a tractor. She lives in north London with her family and cat.
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