Asking uncompromising questions about the sex industry, objectification and the erotic allure of immense wealth, Pascoe offers a splenetic, incisive and frequently hilarious account of the modern condition.
I hope since our chat he thinks I’m normal . . . I told him that I was several times.
Deep in Essex and her own thoughts, Sophie had a feeling something was going to happen and then it did. Chris has entered the pub and re-entered her life. Just as she’s finally stopped thinking about him.
Now Sophie has a chance at creating a happier ending and paying off her emotional debts (if not her financial ones). All she has to do is act exactly like a normal person and not say any of her inner monologue out loud.
If she can suppress her light paranoia and pathological lying, maybe she’ll even end up getting the guy she wants?
The hilarious feminist account of the female body by the award-winning comedian
‘Brilliant’
FRANKIE BOYLE
‘Fresh and honest.’
GUARDIAN
‘Timely and intelligent.’
THE TIMES
Take a funny and illuminating tour of the female body with award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe.
Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselves and each other.
Here’s a book that deals with all of it. Sara Pascoe has joked about feminity and sexuality on stage and screen but now she has a book to talk about it all for a bit longer.
Animal combines autobiography and evolutionary history to create a funny, fascinating insight into the forces that mould and affect modern women.
Animal is entertaining and informative, personal and universal – silly about lots of things and serious about some. It’s a laugh-out-loud investigation to help us understand and forgive our animal urges and insecurities.
“Quirky, hilarious and well-argued…I cannot think of anything quite like it. It’s part-memoir, part comedy, part anthropological investigation” – Daily Telegraph
A funny book with serious intent, Sex Power Money interrogates this contentious triptych and examines the links between the three.
Asking uncompromising questions about the sex industry, objectification and the erotic allure of immense wealth, Pascoe offers a splenetic, incisive and frequently hilarious account of the modern condition.
Award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe, following her hit book Animal, turns her attention to the things that really matter to humans – sex, power and money.
Deciding to confront her fear of the male libido, Pascoe delves into such questions as: Why don’t people care about the welfare of the people they masturbate to? Why is there such stigma around those who work in the sex industry?
In this comedic and educational hopscotch over anatomy, the history of sexual representation and the sticky way all human interactions are underwritten by wealth, Pascoe explores whether we’ll ever be able to escape the Conundrum of Heterosexuality if women can’t help but admire status, and men obsess about youth and physicality.
Drawing on anecdotal experience, unqualified opinion, interviews and research, Sex Power Money is thought-provoking and riotously funny: a fresh take on the oldest discussion.
