What the  is Normal?!, Francesca Martinez
What the  is Normal?!, Francesca Martinez
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What the **** is Normal?!

Author: Francesca Martinez

Narrator: Francesca Martinez

Unabridged: 11 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Virgin Digital

Published: 05/07/2015


Synopsis

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … DISABLED?
Whatever body you’re born into, the pressure to be normal is everywhere. But have you ever met a normal person? What do they look like? Where do they live? What do they eat for breakfast?
And what the **** does normal mean anyway?
This is the award-winning wobbly comedian Francesca Martinez’s funny, personal, and universal story of how she learned to stick two shaky fingers up to the crazy expectations of a world obsessed with being ‘normal’.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Helen on June 13, 2014

EVERYONE MUST READ THIS EXCELLENT BOOK, IT IS HAPPY , SAD, FUNNY, INSPIRING, INTERESTING. JUST BRILLIANT.......more

Goodreads review by Makella on January 12, 2017

i have no idea why i stopped reading this book 3/4 of the way through. (actually i do, it was because of the *drumroll please* cccchristmas holidays). although overall, it was highly entertaining and interesting, as far as books go, the end of this novel enlightened me with some of the most relevant......more

Goodreads review by Jo on January 05, 2017

First class thought-provoking autobiography. I was lucky enough to meet Francesca Martinez and buy this book at a literary festival. I forgot about her since seeing her in Grange Hill all those years ago so I had to Google her to remind myself who she was. Being of exactly the same age and therefore......more

Goodreads review by Trevor on March 20, 2016

Francesca Martinez is probably the UK's best known disabled comedian. This is an account of her early years from growing up as a child through those awkward teenage years and onto adulthood. I found it very entertaining and funny as well as informative. As a disabled person myself, following an acci......more


Quotes

A cheerful optimistic belly-laugh broadside at prejudice and a wonderful testament to the power of Being Funny. I love Francesca Martinez. STEVE COOGAN

Her observations and perspective are unique and powerful. This is a funny, compassionate and inspiring story of how 'being different' can become, with the right attitude, an unlikely advantage. Also, it's bloody funny and touching Russell Brand

A cheerful optimistic belly-laugh broadside at prejudice and a wonderful testament to the power of “being funny”, I love Francesca Martinez Steve Coogan

A wonderful read! Warm, funny and unforgettable Jonathan Ross

A very, very important [book] ... I can’t think of a work that has so brilliantly expressed how a person disabled from birth sees herself The Sunday Times

As entertaining as it is moving ... this book is a wonderful, funny, warm coming-of-age memoir about finding your own path in life. Long may she wobble. Five stars. Viv Groskop, The Telegraph

It is honest and refreshing but most of all it is bloody funny. What the **** is normal anyway? Telegraph

A comedian brilliantly captures how a person disabled from birth sees herself Culture