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Did I Say That Out Loud?
- Author
- Fi Glover, Jane Garvey
- Narrator
- Fi Glover, Jane Garvey
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 30 September 2021
- Run Time
- 6 hours 52 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
'Joyous, wise, reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny. I love these two women so much.' Elizabeth Day
'A book like no other. Honest and very, very funny. Some bits made me want to cheer - a sentence on parenting teenage girls was so good I may get it tattooed on myself, possibly in Hebrew.' Sara Cox
Award-winning broadcasters Fi Glover and Jane Garvey don't claim to have all the answers (what was the question?), but in these hilarious and perceptive essays they take modern life by its elasticated waist and give it a brisk going over with a stiff brush.
They riff together on the chuff of life, from pet deaths to broadcasting hierarchies, via the importance of hair dye, the perils and pleasures of judging other women, and the perplexing overconfidence of chino-wearing middle-aged white men named Roger.
Did I Say That Out Loud? covers essential life skills (never buy an acrylic jumper, always decline the offer of a limoncello), ponders the prudence of orgasm merchandise and suggests the disconcerting possibility that Christmas is a hereditary disease, passed down the maternal line.
At a time of constant uncertainty, what we all need is the wisdom of two women who haven't got a clue what's going on either.
Critics Review
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Joyous, wise, reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny. I love these two women so much.
Elizabeth Day
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I want to be like Fi and Jane when I grow up.
Clare Balding
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A book like no other. Honest and very, very funny. Some bits made me want to cheer - a sentence on parenting teenage girls was so good I may get it tattooed on myself, possibly in Hebrew.
Sara Cox
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If books were bubble baths... this was a truly luxurious read - filled with warmth, wit and wisdom. I enjoyed it so much that I actually felt guilty afterwards - books shouldn't be this enjoyable should they? Pages of poignancy, laughter and honest sharing. Fi and Jane are no better than they should be. And that's saying an awful lot.
Anita Anand
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Honestly these two will stop at nothing for attention.
Kirsty Wark
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You'll laugh, you'll nod your head so vigorously in agreement that you'll end up with whiplash and you'll buy a copy of this book for all your friends for Christmas. If you loved the late, great Victoria Wood, then you'll love Fi and Jane too.
RED MAGAZINE
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Friends, comrades, naughty girls at the back of the class, Glover and Garvey adopt their trademark approach of "oh FFS why doesn't everyone just do one"... It made me howl and snort the G&T that I just knew was going to give me a 72 hour hangover if I had another one.
NOON
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The broadcasting duo are on fine form... I predict this will be a pre-Christmas hit in book and audio format, proving, once again, this pair's relevance.
SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE
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Glover and Garvey are smart and perceptive with a dry sense of humour and a knack of hitting the nail squarely on the head... [the book is] wise, laugh-out loud funny and, just like the authors themselves, it never preaches.
SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE
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Hilarious and perceptive
INSIDE SOAP
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If their radio incarnations are sensible and restrained, and their podcast selves freewheeling and prone to corpsing, the tone here lands somewhere in between. There is fluency and professionalism, but also intimacy and silliness that makes their podcast such a delight. To spend time with these two is to eavesdrop on a slightly sozzled, bracingly candid conversation between pals.
GUARDIAN - audiobook review
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Details
- Author
- Fi Glover, Jane Garvey
- Narrator
- Fi Glover, Jane Garvey
- Duration
- 6 hours 52 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 September 2021
- ISBN
- 9781398705708
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Radio plays, scripts and performances
Synopsis
Features audiobook-exclusive extra content, including a mid-record tea break and bespoke introductions for each chapter.'Joyous, wise, reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny. I love these two women so much.' Elizabeth Day'A book like no other. Honest and very, very funny. Some bits made me want to cheer - a sentence on parenting teenage girls was so good I may get it tattooed on myself, possibly in Hebrew.' Sara CoxAward-winning broadcasters Fi Glover and Jane Garvey don't claim to have all the answers (what was the question?), but in these hilarious and perceptive essays they take modern life by its elasticated waist and give it a brisk going over with a stiff brush.They riff together on the chuff of life, from pet deaths to broadcasting hierarchies, via the importance of hair dye, the perils and pleasures of judging other women, and the perplexing overconfidence of chino-wearing middle-aged white men named Roger.Did I Say That Out Loud? covers essential life skills (never buy an acrylic jumper, always decline the offer of a limoncello), ponders the prudence of orgasm merchandise and suggests the disconcerting possibility that Christmas is a hereditary disease, passed down the maternal line.At a time of constant uncertainty, what we all need is the wisdom of two women who haven't got a clue what's going on either.
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