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All of Jo’s profits from The Funny Thing About Death will be donated to MacMillan Cancer Support – a charity which Jo has already raised over £50,000 for through bucket collections at the end of her Edinburgh Fringe shows. There will be a chance to buy a copy of the book at the end of each tour show. Post navigation
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 ...
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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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’.
You really do need to be more careful of yourself.”. But it’s another adventure. And her sister gave her a taste for those. The Funny Thing About Death by Jo Caulfield is published by Polygon ...
It’s called The Funny Thing About Death, it’s written by comedian Jo Caulfield and it’s about losing her sister Annie to this ratbag of a disease. Annie was a writer, an adventurer and when it came to her demise she was very much a planner. She did the running order for her own funeral – “if this bit runs over, cut that
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The comedian Jo Caulfield has written a beautiful book about love, grief and sisterhood. ‘The Funny Thing…’ is a tribute to her older sister Annie, a writer of plays, travelogues, children’s stories and television comedy. A memoir, the book carries parallel narratives, the story of Annie’s life and the story of her death.
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