# Funny Girl

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- Book: [Funny Girl](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/funny-girl) ([Funny Girl.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/funny-girl.md))
- Authors: [Nick Hornby](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-522-1
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2021-10-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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?