Weirdo: 'Unlike many debut novels this one will stick with you for a long time' Guardian

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For her first foray into writing, Brown strikes the right balance as the characters grapple with the ongoing heartache of grief, as well as finding happiness amid the trauma and uncovering the power of love. The book and podcast received positive critical reception and the book entered The Sunday Times ' bestseller list.

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So next month, she’ll be chained to her desk, not to the wheel of the biggest event in world comedy.If you’d like to join a book club but don’t like wine, nibbles or other people, Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd’s podcast is what you need.

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We readers are watching her every move; and the author, eavesdropping on her character’s most perverse and private thoughts, is watching her too; and the author herself has made a living out of being watched and listened to and observed. Pascoe was one of the four competitors on a Christmas edition of The Great British Sewing Bee broadcast on Boxing Day 2020 on BBC 1. That’s a shame, because the ending is sublime, cleverly tying up with tender farce all of the book’s most subversive ideas about romance and lust and the added power that storytelling gives them in our lives.A surrogate delivers a baby into the world – but unaware to her and the parents, he is different to the rest of the human race. There’s melancholy here, too: “sometimes thirst feels like homesickness”, Sophie reflects when that sex scene is finally over.

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Part of the joy of Weirdo is not knowing what to expect, or rather in having your expectations subverted by Sophie’s smoothie-maker of a mind. In 2019, The Guardian reviewed the podcast as the 12th-best podcast of the year, finding it "equally insightful" in comparison to the book. The first episode looks at intimacy with strangers, with perceptive contributions around privilege, privacy and consent from Scottee, artist Adrian Piper and Serpentine Galleries curator Tamsin Hong. Sometimes they invite guests such as Audrey Indome from The Receipts podcast or DJ Henrie, but actually these three women are more than capable of holding it down on their own. The book was published in hardback on 29 August 2019; [1] a paperback edition was released on 20 August 2020.This off-kilter perceptiveness manifests as the kind of precise observations you might expect from standup Sara 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. In 2016, along with numerous other celebrities, Pascoe toured the UK to support Jeremy Corbyn's bid to become prime minister. Rundell’s book packs a punch with imagination and creativity in its purest form – it’s a great starter for any young reader before moving onto a fantasy classic. Sophie has worked on the buses, as a “scarer” at the London Dungeon and now in a horrible unnamed pub chain. However, the Covid-19 pandemic caused the project to be delayed, and both series were filmed at the National Gallery in London in summer 2021.