Jane is Trying

Name: Jane is Trying
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Isy Suttie
ISBN: 9781409170969

Author: Isy Suttie

Series: W&N Essentials

Narrator: Isy Suttie

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 07/22/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor, Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

'Tremendous' Adam Kay
'Heart-warming' Sarah Pascoe
'So well-observed' Daisy Buchanan
'Hilarious' James Acaster
'I LOVED it' Aisling Bea
'The perfect concoction of warmth and grit' i Newspaper
'Wonderful' Stylist

Jane is trying.

She's been trying for a baby, with increasing desperation as her thirties sail by.

Now, she's trying to make a new start back home with her overprotective, charades-obsessed parents - having left her career and cheating fiancé behind in London.

With an increasing load on her plate, friends and family who think she'll have a perfect life if she only listens to them, and a brain which questions every decision she's ever made, can Jane conquer her demons and step forward on her own?

About Isy Suttie

Isy Suttie is a comedian, actress and writer. She has written for the Guardian, the Observer, the New Statesman, Red and Glamour. She appears regularly on BBC Radio 4, where her show Pearl and Dave won a Gold Sony Award in 2013. Her TV credits include Dobby in Peep Show and Esther in Shameless, plus appearances on 8 Out of 10 Cats, Would I Lie To You? and Q.I. A three-time British Comedy Award nominee, her short stories have appeared in A Love Letter To Europe and Dead Funny: Encore. Her memoir, The Actual One, was published by Orion in 2015.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz on August 02, 2021

Really enjoyed this book. Managed to be light-hearted and funny whilst also getting across complex emotional situations. I really felt Jane's experiences - having to move back home after the break up of her relationship and deal with her parents' - and everyone else's - small town mentality. Jane is......more

Goodreads review by Angela on March 06, 2024

I really enjoyed this and found it really easy to read. It actually made me laugh out loud in parts, only when I saw the author picture I realised it was written by Dobby from Peepshow 😆......more

Goodreads review by Anna on April 15, 2023

Very enjoyable read. Had some much deeper messaging and meaning, but still managed to be a light and funny read. I wasn’t sure going how much of the book would be fertility talk, but it wasn’t a huge amount of the story. I would still perhaps proceed with caution if you’re planning to read this and......more

Goodreads review by Cleo on January 06, 2024

3.5 stars. Having been spoiled by the joyous radio series 'Isy Suttie's Love Letters', reading her writing without the addition of her wonderful narration meant that it took a little while for me to get into this book. But, the longer we spent in Foley, the longer my reading sessions became. I SO ro......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 25, 2021

This is the debut novel by comedian and actor Isy Suttie. “Jane is trying”- to get pregnant to forget her cheating fiancé to conquer her overwhelming anxiety and OCD tendencies to forge a new future without relying on her parents or fiancé This is a funny and sweet story about trying to start afresh......more

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I LOVED Jane Is Trying. It has all the warmth, cleverness, wit and turn of phrase I fell in love with watching Isy performing

Jane Is Trying is Isy Suttie's first novel but her voice has the easy, warm confidence of someone whose been at the lark for yonks; slyly funny, gently incisive, compassionate yes but with just enough wicked accuracy about the process of growing up and getting things wrong to make it painfully true.

Big-hearted, stacked with empathy, and properly splutter-coffee funny. A book so full of love that there ought to be a huggable version of it. Isy goes from warm-hearted to outrageous so deftly that I think she might have special powers. WHAT a book. How many times can I say 'brilliant'?

A hilarious and touching story about going backwards in order to move forwards, imbued with Isy Suttie's unique voice and outlook on our stressful, ridiculous world

Sharp, tender, darkly funny and so well observed

Gripping, laugh out loud and heart-warming. Suttie has created a charming world of oddballs (and their even odder parents) I miss them all already!

A rich comedy about the joy and horror of romance, sex, family life and small towns, Jane Is Trying is one of the most delightful and rewarding first novels I've ever read. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading, laughing or doing both at the same time.

Jane is Trying is laugh out loud funny, beautiful and brave. It manages to be true to life and yet so full of funny and outrageous drama, too. This is the kind of book that you wish would never end. I loved it!

Offbeat, hilarious, tender and vulnerable. I loved it.

I was already a huge fan of Isy Suttie and can confirm I'm now at the raging, crying, teenager-obsessed-with-Harry-Styles level. Jane Is Trying is absolute genius; so clever and funny. I laughed and cried constantly and couldn't put it down. Everyone should read it.