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A Book for Her
- Author
- Bridget Christie
- Narrator
- Bridget Christie
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 9 July 2015
- Run Time
- 7 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Humour, Memoirs, Gender studies: women and girls, Individual actors and performers, Feminism and feminist theory
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
What to expect
Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women’s Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever.
A Book For Her details Christie’s twelve 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 Bronte 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.
“Christie is adept at turning on a sixpence between being comical, or serious, or both at once, and at pricking her own earnestness.” Telegraph
‘Christie piles derision and tomfoolery upon everyday sexism, while never pretending that jokes alone will solve the problem.’ Guardian
Critics Review
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A cool, clear glass of sane in a world of unbearable woo-hoo.
Caitlin Moran
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A great feminist stand up, who gets us feminists to laugh at ourselves, as well as at the dinosaurs.
Mary Beard
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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
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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
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Charm, passion and gallons of wit. Funny books seldom come so committed, nor committed books much funnier.
Sunday Telegraph
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Bloody excellent.
Sarah Millican
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Vulnerable, courageous and very funny
Stylist
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Rewriting the feminist agenda ... a must read.
Red Magazine
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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
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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'.
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User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 5.0
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4.0 5.0
Got insulted for listening and not reading minute one, but kept on with a lot of pleasure anyway. It was really interesting, sometimes infuriating because of the state of the world it describes, and very funny. Bought the book afterwards. Would read again.
Traficote 2025-03-17
Details
- Author
- Bridget Christie
- Narrator
- Bridget Christie
- Duration
- 7 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 July 2015
- ISBN
- 9781473518438
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Humour, Memoirs, Gender studies: women and girls, Individual actors and performers, Feminism and feminist theory
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women’s Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever. A Book For Her details Christie’s twelve 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 Bronte 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. “Christie is adept at turning on a sixpence between being comical, or serious, or both at once, and at pricking her own earnestness.” Telegraph‘Christie piles derision and tomfoolery upon everyday sexism, while never pretending that jokes alone will solve the problem.’ Guardian
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