Weirdo

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Rooted in affecting real-life observations, Sara Pascoe’s Weirdo is suffused in the comedian’s unmistakable voice, and her unique perspective on the world. Rippling with meandering, moving streams of consciousness reveries, the protagonist’s narrative voice is distinctly tragi-comic as we follow her stumbling journey through young adulthood to come to the stirring realisation that it is possible to write your own life story.

With a somewhat dysfunctional family, and trapped in a loveless, sexless relationship (“I don’t know what love is, but it’s not this. It’s not being treated like a horny binbag of rotting leaves.”), Sophie works in a bar on low wages that’ll do nothing to help her out of the big debt she’s got herself into. Into this situation walks Chris, when he literally walks into her bar… Could this fortuitous return of an Australian hook-up be a sign Sophie’s life is finally turning around? Maybe, if only she can stop thinking and acting like a weirdo.

Funny and poignant, not least when Sophie’s internal flights of fantasy slip into being expressed aloud, and when she muses about her future biography, Weirdo is contemporary fiction at its most brilliantly bittersweet.

Joanne Owen

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