Sara Pascoe: Why Be Normal When You Can Be Funny?

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Much loved comedian, actor, TV personality, and writer Sara Pascoe has enlightened readers – and made them howl with laughter – with her reflections on femininity and sexuality in non-fiction books Animal and Sex Power Money. Now, she turns her talents to fiction with Weirdo, the tale of a woman desperate to seem like a ‘normal’, well-adjusted grown up. If only she could stop the voices in her head. In converstation with Michael Pedersen.

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