Did I Say That Out Loud?, Fi Glover
Did I Say That Out Loud?, Fi Glover
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Did I Say That Out Loud?
Notes on the Chuff of Life

Author: Fi Glover, Jane Garvey

Narrator: Fi Glover, Jane Garvey

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Trapeze

Published: 09/30/2021


Synopsis

Features audiobook-exclusive extra content, including a mid-record tea break and bespoke introductions for each chapter.

'Joyous, wise, reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny. I love these two women so much.' Elizabeth Day

'A book like no other. Honest and very, very funny. Some bits made me want to cheer - a sentence on parenting teenage girls was so good I may get it tattooed on myself, possibly in Hebrew.' Sara Cox

Award-winning broadcasters Fi Glover and Jane Garvey don't claim to have all the answers (what was the question?), but in these hilarious and perceptive essays they take modern life by its elasticated waist and give it a brisk going over with a stiff brush.

They riff together on the chuff of life, from pet deaths to broadcasting hierarchies, via the importance of hair dye, the perils and pleasures of judging other women, and the perplexing overconfidence of chino-wearing middle-aged white men named Roger.

Did I Say That Out Loud? covers essential life skills (never buy an acrylic jumper, always decline the offer of a limoncello), ponders the prudence of orgasm merchandise and suggests the disconcerting possibility that Christmas is a hereditary disease, passed down the maternal line.

At a time of constant uncertainty, what we all need is the wisdom of two women who haven't got a clue what's going on either.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bridget on February 16, 2025

I'm a fan of Fi Glover and Jane Garvey's podcast called 'Fortunately' but I wasn't sure that this rather different format would work; I was convinced by the end of 'Did I Say That Out Loud?' that it does BUT I listened to the audible version which has lots of extras in it. I'm sure I'd have enjoyed......more

Goodreads review by Dylan on December 22, 2021

“Don’t say a word against my Nancy!” I frickin’ love these ladies -an entertaining (and enlightening) listen as ever! 3.5 stars......more

Goodreads review by Wendy Storey on July 11, 2022

My favourite podcasters. Could hear their voices in my head as I read this.......more


Quotes

Joyous, wise, reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny. I love these two women so much. Elizabeth Day

I want to be like Fi and Jane when I grow up. Clare Balding

A book like no other. Honest and very, very funny. Some bits made me want to cheer - a sentence on parenting teenage girls was so good I may get it tattooed on myself, possibly in Hebrew. Sara Cox

If books were bubble baths... this was a truly luxurious read - filled with warmth, wit and wisdom. I enjoyed it so much that I actually felt guilty afterwards - books shouldn't be this enjoyable should they? Pages of poignancy, laughter and honest sharing. Fi and Jane are no better than they should be. And that's saying an awful lot. Anita Anand

Honestly these two will stop at nothing for attention. Kirsty Wark

You'll laugh, you'll nod your head so vigorously in agreement that you'll end up with whiplash and you'll buy a copy of this book for all your friends for Christmas. If you loved the late, great Victoria Wood, then you'll love Fi and Jane too. RED MAGAZINE

Friends, comrades, naughty girls at the back of the class, Glover and Garvey adopt their trademark approach of "oh FFS why doesn't everyone just do one"... It made me howl and snort the G&T that I just knew was going to give me a 72 hour hangover if I had another one. NOON

The broadcasting duo are on fine form... I predict this will be a pre-Christmas hit in book and audio format, proving, once again, this pair's relevance. SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE

Glover and Garvey are smart and perceptive with a dry sense of humour and a knack of hitting the nail squarely on the head... [the book is] wise, laugh-out loud funny and, just like the authors themselves, it never preaches. SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE

Hilarious and perceptive INSIDE SOAP