- Title:
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How Not To Be a Boy (MP3)
- Written by:
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Robert Webb
- Read by:
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Robert Webb
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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8 hours 53 minutes
- MP3 size:
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368 MB
- Published:
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June 28 2018
- Available Date:
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June 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489452757
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; British; Celebrity; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
The Sunday Times bestseller
A part-memoir, part call-to-arms from the award-winning and hilariously funny Robert Webb.
Rules for Being a Man:
– Don't cry
– Love sport
– Play rough
– Drink beer
– Don't talk about feelings
But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone?
Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband and father, Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys and men have thrust upon them at every stage of life. Hilarious and heartbreaking, How Not to Be a Boy explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man, the lessons we learn as sons and daughters and the understanding that sometimes you aren't the Luke Skywalker of your life – you're actually Darth Vader.
'Frank and compelling ... Laugh-out-loud funny ... also, in parts, blink-back-tears sad. Why would I blink back tears rather than give full rein to the emotion? Well, Webb can explain.'
Mail on Sunday
'Written with wit and clarity, How Not To Be a Boy is a funny, rueful, truthful book.'
Stephen Fry
'Quite simply brilliant. I (genuinely) cried. I (genuinely) laughed out loud. It's profound, touching, personal yet universal ... I loved it'
J.K. Rowling
'Takes us deftly from hilarity to heart-stopping hurt ... A truly great read, full of heart.'
Dawn French