Bonkers, Jennifer Saunders
Bonkers, Jennifer Saunders
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Bonkers
My Life in Laughs

Author: Jennifer Saunders

Narrator: Jennifer Saunders

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 10/10/2013


Synopsis

Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names.

But it's Jennifer herself who has a place in all our hearts. This is her funny, moving and frankly bonkers memoir, filled with laughter, friends and occasional heartache - but never misery.

BONKERS is full of riotous adventures: accidentally enrolling on a teacher training course with a young Dawn French, bluffing her way to each BBC series, shooting Lulu, trading wild faxes with Joanna Lumley, touring India with Ruby Wax and Goldie Hawn.

There's cancer, too, when she becomes 'Brave Jen'. But her biggest battle is with the bane of her life: the Laws of Procrastination. As she admits, 'There has never been a Plan. Everything has been fairly random, happened by accident or just fallen into place. I'm off now, to do some sweeping...'
Prepare to chuckle, whoop, and go BONKERS.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gem (The Creepy Geek) on September 21, 2017

Very enjoyable listen! So glad I chose to read it via audible because Jennifer Saunders’ narration really does bring this book to life. There is so much in this book I didn’t know but my favourite parts were when she was taking about her friendships, especially those with Dawn French and Joanna Luml......more

Goodreads review by V. on November 29, 2013

Jennifer Saunders, half of the French and Saunders comedy team and creator of the Absolutely Fabulous TV series, is a deeply private person with a vast English reserve. Yes, it's difficult to believe that the woman who spent most of her Ab Fab screen time outrageously drunk and arse-over-knickers is......more

Goodreads review by Sophy on June 06, 2024

A very funny audiobook read by Saunders. This made me cackle with laughter on many occasions whilst crocheting. Saunders strikes the right balance between humour, semi-seriousness and name dropping but in a self-deprecatory way so as not to be obnoxious! (Imagine being chastised by Goldie Hawn for p......more


Quotes

Fabulous? Yes. Funny? Absolutely Mail on Sunday

Beautifully written and frequently hilarious Guardian

Delightfully funny... she writes with moving honesty Hello!

Her account of battling breast cancer is as honest as it is uplifting Daily Mail

'Hilarious and brilliant' BBC Radio 4

Endearing and hilarious. If only all celebrity biographies were this funny Telegraph