Lobster, Hollie McNish
Lobster, Hollie McNish
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Lobster
and other things I’m learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

Author: Hollie McNish

Narrator: Hollie McNish

Unabridged: 9 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/14/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug
'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN

'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' GIOVANNA FLETCHER

This book is written out of both hate and love for the world
As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others?

We are told to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun.

In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question of what have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again.

'Never have we needed her more' STYLIST

'I've loved her work for years' JO BRAND

'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPEST

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

About Hollie McNish

Hollie McNish is an award-winning poet based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers, Slug and Lobster, the Ted Hughes Award-winning Nobody Told Me and poetry collections Plum, Cherry Pie and Papers. She has also adapted Greek tragedy Antigone, and co-wrote Offside, a play, with fellow poet Sabrina Mahfouz. She loves writing.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Clare on May 07, 2024

I never tire of Hollie. A hug after a rough day; the book equivalent of chatting to your best friend about things you both thought far too weird to admit to anyone else.......more

Goodreads review by Hannah Ruth on May 17, 2024

I will pledge allegiance to the Hollie McNish flag forever. Funny, full of warmth and sense, I just think the world of her. I love her writing style in the prose between the poems, and of course I love reading the poems aloud to my thoroughly amused housemates.......more

Goodreads review by indiffferente on May 23, 2024

4,5⭐️ hollie mcnish the woman that you are i love you this is a great great book......more

Goodreads review by Salomée on April 08, 2024

Hollie McNish did it again. I don't know how this writer manages to make me giggle one page and my heart aches for all the injustices of the world the next. I always feel so full of love and hope when I close her books. I would read anything McNish writes, I even enjoyed the poem about her poo (c'es......more

Goodreads review by abby on August 01, 2025

Hollie McNish never disappoints. Reading Lobster felt like having a conversation with your best friend late in the night during a sleepover, I didn’t want it to end......more


Quotes

Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away. They're nostalgia mixed with the realisation of what we've been fed. Reminiscence leading to discoveries before the arrival of acceptance, healing and contentment. The perfect book about life to make you question what you think is true. I wish I could've read it sooner!

funny, so smart and refreshingly honest

Poems to feed your soul: 480 pages of funny, wise and thought-provoking reflections on how to embrace ourselves and our lives, just as we are Stylist

I've loved her work for years

One of the best poets we have . . . I love Hollie McNish

beautifully, quietly heartbreaking . . . this book is so good

She succeeded in me seeing the world in an entirely different way . . . Raw, Visceral

energising, fearless and joyful

She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love

Hollie and her poems are a bold, funny, raw, rebellious delight