Sophie Straw pretty soon meets with two comedy scriptwriters who are completely taken with her, and decide to write a TV show around her as the main character.
This, for a reader with the right background and old enough to have seen many of the programs and characters who appear in the book - and perhaps for someone without the background or the years - this was a giggle, if not a hoot.
Hornby loses his way - maybe intentionally - as the book dwells as much on the writers as the Funny Girl herself, but it didn't detract from the easy readability of the whole.
A perfect way to while away a few hours in the pool bar.
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