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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'
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'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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