The hilarious memoir from award winning comedian 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.
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*
Must-read for any young women, or man, interested in comedy and
feminism.
*Hello!*
A charming, eloquent, passionate and knowingly ridiculous voice, in
print as she is on stage, and that's how you win people over. This
is what a feminist sounds like.
*Chortle*
Funny, furious and staunchly feminist ... [a] brilliantly
belligerent book.
*S Magazine*
Stand-up Bridget Christie’s autobiographical call-to-arms for
gender equality is as hilarious as it is committed
*Telegraph Online*
Very, very funny.
*Radio Times*
An excellent and unputdownable book…Christie combines narrative and
stream-of-consciousness brilliantly
*Observer*
The funny woman's memoir ... hysterical.
*Vogue UK*
It is a fine book, somewhere between feminist treatise,
autobiography and nerdy stand-up how-to guide. Most importantly for
me, it was very funny, despite also being deadly serious. This of
course is Christie’s strength that sets her above her peers ... she
uses the Trojan horse technique of concealing a powerful army of
vital messages inside a giant horse-shaped laugh ... and she does
it better than anyone.
*Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke*
We always need more feminist memoirs, when they’re funny and
insightful and clever and honest. Bridget Christie’s A Book for Her
is all of those things.
*Stylist*
[Christie] made me laugh loudly on the tube like a loud, shameless,
lipstick-covered walrus…funny and passionate and inspiring, all at
the same time.
*Huffington Post*
I think Bridget Christie has a kind of genius. It's an incredibly
funny and weirdly moving memoir about a person finding her voice. I
was dazzled by it.
*Jon Ronson*
[Christie's] humility sucks you in and makes you laugh. She is
funny in all the right places.
*Irish Times*
It reads very much like a stand-up routine, from the running gags
and callbacks. Whatever the seriousness of the subject she’s
discussing, however passionately she’s laying into her pet hates,
Christie never forgets also to make herself an object of mirth, and
does so with charm and brio to spare.
*Telegraph (Best Books for Christmas)*
I’m halfway through the excellent A Book for Her. This book is like
she’s sitting next to me in all her feministy, hilarious, smart
glory.
*Sarah Millican, Good Housekeeping*
‘It’s great: she has really embraced the form and constantly goes
on long digressions just for the audiobook listeners.
*The Sunday Telegraph*
It’s rare I purchase a hardback (they hurt when they drop on my
face when I fall asleep reading!), but I was so desperate to read
Bridget Christie’s A Book For Her, I braved it. I was well
rewarded. Part memoir, part rant, Christie brilliantly and
hilariously points out the utter absurdity and nonsensical cruelty
of sexism, it left me smiling but furious.
*WH Smith blog*
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