![]() ![]() “ This very funny book is the story of Rachel, a journalist-turned-standup comic who is engaged to an extremely uptight dentist, whose ex-husband left her for a male Estee Lauder rep, whose 10 year old son has a bizarre passion for Barbra Streisand, whose employers are rather eccentric members of London’s glitterati, whose mother appears to be having a fling with a toy boy … well, anyway, she has lots going on in her life. There is some light erotica in between, refreshing and humorous, without the euphemisms and emotional bla-bla you often see in traditional romance novels.” 5★ Suffice to say that it’s about a woman struggling to be a stand-up comic, while most of her life is much funnier than her routine (maybe Seinfeld if he was a woman in London and with a lot more sex). I just don’t want to ruin anything by giving up jokes or much plotline. Sitting round The Anarchist Bathmat’s pub tables was the usual mix of pierced and goateed student types, a few yuppies and a smattering of forty-somethings desperate to show the world their humour was still cutting edge whilst forgetting their sartorial style was more cutting hedge.” She peered at the audience through the smoke and semi-darkness. ![]() I mean, practically all my boyfriends have missed the things that are really important to me – my birthday, the anniversary of when we met… my clitoris.’ “ ‘You see,’ she continued, starting to feel mildly nauseous now, ‘it’s not only the emotional thing fellas can’t do. ![]()
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