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**As featured on BBC2's Between the Covers**
'Glamorous. Heart-breaking. Hilarious. Feminist. Life-changing'
Katherine Ryan
'I loved this book so much. It's hard to overpraise. So funny and so sad and so hopeful'
Neil Gaiman
'A wonderful and very special book'
Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt
'Funny,…
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2 authors picked Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Oh, my goodness me, what a book! The title drew me in, and the first page had me gasping with laughter. The author took me straight back to my own 1970s English childhood. It was so funny I could hardly breathe in parts. It was so desperately sad that if I were a crier, I would have been sobbing.
It is honestly one of my favorite books ever. It is about a crazy, up-and-down, dysfunctional childhood that leads to a pretty exciting adulthood with lots of premature deaths thrown in along the way. The author has survived an awful lot…
Oh, my goodness me, what a book! The title drew me in, and the first page had me gasping with laughter.
The author took me straight back to my own 1970s English childhood. It was so funny I could hardly breathe in parts. It was so desperately sad that if I were a crier, I would have been sobbing. It is honestly one of my favourite books in the world, ever.
A crazy, up-and-down, dysfunctional childhood which leads to a pretty exciting adulthood with lots of premature deaths thrown in along the way. The author has survived an awful lot…
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