Pushed for examples, she tells a story of her teenage years, when she went round school sticking pins in pictures of a friend who’d got a better part in the drama club show. The viciousness of schoolgirl bullying resonates throughout, and the depth of family trauma – even when played ostensibly for laughs – sticks with you long after the riff’s got old and everyone’s gone home. This casual concept, where no eye contact is required, makes it easy for Dean to dive into what could be thorny territory, such as the challenges of menopause or what makes her guests cry. It also shares the preoccupations of Pascoe’s nonfiction titles, Animal and Sex Power Money – buzzy disquisitions on dating and mating that blitzed memoir with evolutionary biology and feminism to entertaining, sometimes enlightening effect. Shirley Whiteside of The National lauded the book as "educational and highly entertaining", finding that it had an "engaging, conversational style of writing and an intriguing supply of curious facts".

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In February 2020, Dave announced that they were commissioning two further series, with series 2 scheduled to be filmed and broadcast in 2020 and series 3 in 2021. In May 2022, the series was recommissioned for a second series, [36] which premiered on 9 April 2023.In 2019 she was announced as the host of Dave series Comedians Giving Lectures, in which comedians deliver a stand-up presentation in the guise of a lecture. Still, if you skimmed the first chapter, it would be easy to think you knew what you were getting: your basic, by-the-numbers quirky-girl-meets-boy romcom.

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On 16 September 2021, it was announced that Pascoe would host the eighth series of The Great British Sewing Bee, replacing Joe Lycett. The book is dedicated to Arminda Ventura, who was murdered by her husband after attempting to divorce him.In July 2017, Faber and Faber announced the acquisition of Pascoe's second book, Sex Power Money, initially scheduled to be published in August 2018. If you combined those three teenagers, and aged them up 15 years, you might find something of her narrator’s pure, strange tone. The book was published in hardback on 29 August 2019; [1] a paperback edition was released on 20 August 2020.

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Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian Sara Pascoe: ‘I try so hard to be serious, but it feels like I can’t be. British actress Millie Bobby Brown’s debut novel beautifully portrays her grandmother’s real-life experience as a survivor of the 1943 Bethnal Green tube disaster, where 173 people died in a crush on the nineteen steps out of an air raid shelter – giving the novel its title. In April 2019, a live recording of Pascoe's LadsLadsLads tour at the London Palladium was shown on BBC Two. Radio personality Madame Joyce is the cheerful, riotous host of this podcast, which becomes louder and more energetic with each sip of alcohol.

The Rose Cottage Cowl episode is described as having a snuggly, “romcom cottage” feel, in an ode to the ubiquitous Christmas film The Holiday. The podcast features Pascoe discussing sex work, pornography and sexual activity with sex workers, academics and comedians. In August 2010, she performed her first show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sara Pascoe Vs Her Ego. Originally, Pascoe had planned for her second book to be about cultural depictions of the male body, under the name Manimals, but she found fewer "mysteries" about the male body than the female body.