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Aug 16, 2023 · The Funny Thing About Death by Jo Caulfield is published by Polygon, an imprint of Scottish independent press Birlinn, and available now. You can get yourself a copy while supporting the Literary Salon and UK indie bookshops by buying from our shop on Bookshop.org. And if you fancy meeting Jo in St Andrews, pop along to a special event with her ...
Aug 3, 2023 · This is a beautiful, funny, moving book. Jo Caulfield gives an unflinching, heartfelt account of her sister's illness and death, and doesn't shy away from how inconvenient and intrusive grief is, and how difficult family relationships can be, as well as the joy of them. Part of the proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Care so you should definitely ...
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Aug 5, 2023 · Jo Caulfield is best known as one of the UK’s most respected stand-up comedians - a Fringe stalwart who loved Edinburgh so much she moved there. Six years ago, Jo was about to go on stage when she found out that her sister Annie had cancer. What transpired was a cathartic journey for both as they revisited their childhood and adolescence. Now she has written The Funny Thing About Death to ...
The Funny Thing About Death by Jo Caulfield is published by Polygon, £17.99. Jo Caulfield: Razor Sharp is on at Stand 3, The Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh, until August 27 (except August 14 & 21)
And her younger sister, Jo, the stand-up, would have hated herself for writing it. Yet here we are. A moving, occasionally beautiful but down-to-earth account of family ties, creative ambition and lust for life, The Funny Thing About Death is the comic’s first book and it admirably succeeds in conveying Jo’s assertion that ‘cancer was the least interesting thing about Annie’.
Jo’s retelling of her life with and now without. Annie is full of frustration and confusion and anger and wonder, all these emotions tied together with a ribbon of humour, sometimes dark as night, other times laugh-out-loud, always on the mark. Too many of us have been on the journey these two sisters shared, too many more will embark on it.
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Sep 25, 2023 · The Funny Thing About. Death is a debut book written by award-winning comedian Jo Caulfield about the loss of her sister, Annie. Last week, Jo addressed a packed audience squeezed into the narrow confines of Topping Books in St Andrews. Failing to resist the temptation to veer into stand-up, she read excerpts and shared funny stories about ...
