What the **** is Normal?! by Francesca Martinez - ISBN: 9780753555354
Paperback
Funny, personal, shake-up of ‘normal’ expectations in an obsessed world.

What the **** is Normal?!

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2015

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Summary

It is honest and refreshing but most of all it is bloody funny. What the **** is normal anyway? - Daily Telegraph

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … DISABLED?

Whatever body you’re born into, the pressure to be normal is everywhere. But have you ever met a normal person? What do they look …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780753555354
ISBN-10:0753555352
Author:Francesca Martinez
Publisher:Ebury Publishing
Imprint:Virgin Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:1 September 2015
Weight:242g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

A cheerful optimistic belly-laugh broadside at prejudice and a wonderful testament to the power of Being Funny. I love Francesca Martinez. * STEVE COOGAN *
Her observations and perspective are unique and powerful. This is a funny, compassionate and inspiring story of how ‘being different’ can become, with the right attitude, an unlikely advantage. Also, it’s bloody funny and touching * Russell Brand *
A cheerful optimistic belly-laugh broadside at prejudice and a wonderful testament to the power of “being funny”, I love Francesca Martinez * Steve Coogan *
A wonderful read! Warm, funny and unforgettable * Jonathan Ross *
A very, very important [book] … I can’t think of a work that has so brilliantly expressed how a person disabled from birth sees herself – Dominic Lawson * The Sunday Times *
As entertaining as it is moving … this book is a wonderful, funny, warm coming-of-age memoir about finding your own path in life. Long may she wobble. Five stars. * Viv Groskop, The Telegraph *
A comedian brilliantly captures how a person disabled from birth sees herself – The Sunday Times * Culture *
It is honest and refreshing but most of all it is bloody funny. What the **** is normal anyway? * Telegraph *

About The Author

Francesca Martinez

Multi-award-winning Francesca Martinez is the first and only woman to win the Open Mic Award at the Edinburgh Festival, and has since become one of the top comedians of her generation. As well as touring internationally with sell-out runs around the world, Francesca is a TV and radio regular, making popular appearances on such varied programmes as The News Quiz, Russell Howard’s Good News, The Jonathan Ross Show, The Frank Skinner Show, Ricky Gervais’s Extras (in a role written specially for her), Newsnight, This Week, Free Speech (where she was voted most popular guest) and Channel 4 News. Currently, Francesca is in the middle of a 55-date UK/Ireland tour of her award-winning show, also called ‘WHAT THE **** IS NORMAL?!’, which has just been nominated for Best Show at Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2013 - the UK’s largest comedy festival.

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