A brilliant novel from the bestselling author of High
Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way
Down.
Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingénue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters.
Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingénue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters.
• Pride and Prejudice was only half the story
•
If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah
often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with
them.
In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and
Prejudice, the servants take center stage.
With her debut novel, At Risk, Stella Rimington introduced
us to Liz Carlyle–a smart, impassioned MI5 intelligence
officer whose talents and ambitions are counterbalanced by an
abiding awareness of her job’s moral complexities. In
Secret Asset, we are plunged back into her high-stakes,
high-tension world.
For every woman trying to strike that impossible balance between
work and home-and pretending that she has-and for every woman who
has wanted to hurl the acquaintance who coos admiringly, "Honestly,
I just don't know how you do it," out a window, here's a novel to
make you cringe with recognition and laugh out loud.
