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A great summer read. Fun, quirky characters. Set in England during the sixties as the Beatles began to surge and a sit com with sexual overtones could take off, as this one does--Barbara (and Jim) becomes a huge success and catapults former Miss Blackpool to fame. Barbara's goal has always been to entertain people the way she'd been entertained by Lucy as a child. It's the story of her pompous leading man (and Jim), the producer and writers of the show...her absent mother and her friend Diane. I
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This is like a sitcom within a sitcom if that makes any sense. The humor is quick and witty both in the story of Barbara (aka Sophie Straw) and in her roll as Barbara on the BBC television series. She is a young woman from a small town in 1960's England who has the dream to move to London and make it big as a comedic actor like her idol Lucille Ball. She gets her big break and soon her real life and her character's life take off in sometimes its own comedic ways. Sometimes the laughs come from p
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I enjoyed this book so much. Hornby's storytelling was great--looking forward to reading more of his work.
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