What the **** is Normal?!
- Author Francesca Martinez
- Narrator Francesca Martinez
- Publisher Ebury Publishing
- Run Time 11 hours and 7 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Coping with physical impairments / disability, Individual actors and performers, Other performing arts.
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What to expect
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 like? Where do they live? What do they eat for breakfast?
And what the **** does normal mean anyway?
This is the award-winning wobbly comedian Francesca Martinez’s funny, personal, and universal story of how she learned to stick two shaky fingers up to the crazy expectations of a world obsessed with being ‘normal’.
Critics Review
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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
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
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