A Book for Her

by Bridget Christie

Overview

A Book For Her details award-winning comedian Bridget Christie’s 12 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, drawing together the threads that link a smelly smell in the women’s studies section to the global feminist struggle. Find out how nice Peter Stringfellow’s fish tastes, how yoghurt advertising perpetuates rape myths, and how Emily Brontë used a special ladies’ pen to write Wuthering Heights. If you’re interested in comedy and feminism, then this is definitely the book for you. If you hate both then I’d probably give it a miss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780099590842
Publisher:	Random House UK
Publication date:	05/01/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor. She is the winner of the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award, South Bank Sky Arts Award for Comedy, Rose D’Or International Broadcasting Award and four Chortle comedy industry awards, voted for by comedy fans. She was also nominated for a Radio Academy Award and a British Comedy Award for Best Female Television Comic. Her 2013 show A Bic for Her became the top-selling comedy show at the Soho Theatre ever.

Editorial Reviews

"A cool, clear glass of sane in a world of unbearable woo-hoo." —Caitlin Moran, author, How to Be a Woman


"A great feminist stand up, who gets us feminists to laugh at ourselves, as well as at the dinosaurs." —Mary Beard, author, SPQR


"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, comedian


"Vulnerable, courageous and very funny." —Stylist


"Rewriting the feminist agenda . . . a must read." —Red magazine

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