I am a 23 year old student, studying at the University of Manchester. I am from Durham in the North ...
I am a 23 year old student, studying at the University of Manchester. I am from Durham in the North East and enjoy travelling!
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'Bravemouth' is the sequel to the extremely popular 'Billy' also written by Pamela Stephenson. The first book detailed the life of the enigmatic comic and described his awful childhood where he faced abject poverty and abuse, both mental and physical from his family. 'Billy' was a fascinating read and captured the spirit of Billy Connolly by the only person that probably knows the real him, his wife.
'Bravemouth' is an extremely good follow up to 'Billy' as it describes a year in the life of Billy himself as he struggles to come to terms with his rapidly approachin 60th birthday. The reader is drawn into a world of international travel and high class comedy. We follow Billy as he takes part in blockbuster films, travels to Africa for Comic Relief and just comes to terms with his increasing years!
This book is an extremely personal work by Pamela Stephenson as she lets us join her family during an extraordinary year. The book ends with Billy's 60th party which in keeping with the odd comic, is equally strange! Featuring a whole host of celeb friends and ordinary people from Billy's childhood and music days it's an extremely odd party, but very funny to read about.
This book is full of humour and intersperses the present with elements from Billy's troubled past. Of course it also features some of his legendary stand up and observational humour. The best bit about it is that it is not written by Billy himself and therefore does not suffer from any sort of modesty and portrays him in a deservedly special way. It's also a very good example of somebody not letting celeb status change their personality. It seems that Billy has always been and remains extremely strange. This is a very good book and extremely funny, well worth reading.
This is available in paperback for £7.99 and I recently saw it in my local Tesco in hardback at half price, originally £15. It's also part of Waterstones 3 for 2 at the moment so well worth getting!
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