Funny Girl

You loved About a Boy, now meet Funny Girl - the paperback of the year Make them laugh, and they´re yours forever . . . Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn´t want to be a beauty queen. She wants to make people laugh. So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself to London, and overnight she becomes the lead in a new BBC comedy, Sophie Straw: charming, gorgeous, destined to win the nation´s hearts. Funny Girl is the story of a smash-hit TV show and the people behind the scenes. But when life starts imitating art, they all face a choice. How long can they keep going before it´s time to change the channel?