- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company (5 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316860972
- ISBN-13: 978-0316860970
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 528,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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If her bravura performance at this year's BA Conference is anything to go by, then the subscription for this biographical travel memoir from one of our best-loved radio comedians should have gone up handsomely. At Toksvig's school in the US, three girls were chosen to play Gladys Antrobus, a character in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, at different stages of her life. Toksvig played the young Antrobus and formed a close friendship with the other two girls, a friendship that extended to others in the cast and crew. Thus the Gladys Society was born. Her book tells the story of their lifelong friendship, and of her travels to visit the Society's members in the US, all of it shot through with wry observations on the American way of life.
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If Friends Reunited has made you think about tracking down people from your childhood, then beware - this journey to rekindle Sandi's teenage years in America will perhaps remind you of why you left your past well behind you!
The Gladys Society tells of Sandi's quest to meet up with members of her school drama club again and takes her all across America. The anecdotes are great and you'll no doubt end up boring everyone reading them aloud because Sandi is so funny, sharp, witty and talented that'll you want to share the joke with everyone.
It's also a fantastic travelogue and explores parts of the US you would never ever think of going to unless you had to.
Don't read it if you're American though - it's hilarious and really pokes fun at our friends on the other side of the Atlantic! That'll teach Bill Bryson to patronise us in Notes from a Small Island!
The Gladys Society tells of Sandi's quest to meet up with members of her school drama club again and takes her all across America. The anecdotes are great and you'll no doubt end up boring everyone reading them aloud because Sandi is so funny, sharp, witty and talented that'll you want to share the joke with everyone.
It's also a fantastic travelogue and explores parts of the US you would never ever think of going to unless you had to.
Don't read it if you're American though - it's hilarious and really pokes fun at our friends on the other side of the Atlantic! That'll teach Bill Bryson to patronise us in Notes from a Small Island!
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