Book description
Comedian Maeve Higgins, much-loved star of Fancy Vittles and Naked
Camera, directs her idiosyncratic and laser-sharp humour onto being a
regular human girl in today's world. In this field trip of forensic wit
across contemporary Ireland and beyond, she fearlessly dissects the
small, day-to-day stuff of life that we sometimes dread, sometimes
delight in, but all recognise. Here are tales of reluctant hen nights,
things sisters can do that boyfriends cannot, the curse of
over-politeness, why even feminists read misogynistic magazines, how to
finally (but never truly) leave home, and the secret fantasies that eat
into a girl's spare time. Unflinchingly honest, wry and laugh-out-loud
funny, Regular Human Girl also explores the tough questions in life,
such as whether clapping too loudly at a gig is a good enough reason to
break up with somebody; what a clandestine ambition to be a prison
governor says about a woman; or, crucially, why anybody would agree to a
chain of events that leaves them horse-riding in Mexico, blindfolded.
Love and music, uncertainty and optimism, family and guilt, ineptitude
and giddiness are all illuminated and captured in these snapshots of a
life considered.
