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Book review: Sara Pascoe’s maverick novel hits both heart and funny bone
In Weirdo, the comedian and feminist thinker has delivered a perfectly pitched fictional debut that hovers between acerbic and devastating
Sara Pascoe will be familiar to fans of the British comedy scene as a successful stand-up comedian, and as a writer of books on feminism, sex and power (Sex Power Money, 2019, and Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, 2016). Her debut novel Weirdo straddles the line between acerbic and devastating. It follows the journey of a woman as she navigates obsession with an old flame, deep debt to her family (and debt collectors) ...
