Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
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By Sara Pascoe
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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.
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Part memoir, part exploration of evolutionary history and human psychology, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body is an engaging, informative, funny and sometimes slightly heartbreaking book. Sara Pascoe is wonderfully honest about her own experiences in relationships and life, seeking to understand her feelings and actions through interrogating scientific and psychological studies. It sounds serious – and it undeniably explores serious issues – but Sara writes in an accessible, engaging and fun way, making this both an informative and an entertaining read.
