Skip to main content

Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Children, Children's Fiction, International Fiction, Young Adult
ISBN: 9780241374627
Published: May 2020
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 336
Format: Paperback
RRP 215.00

Pretty Funny

Formats & Editions

Product Image
Paperback
About the book

"This book is filled with loveable characters, witty dialogue and proper LOLS which made recording the audiobook hard - because I kept giggling!" Sharon Rooney

Does anyone ever really want to 'fall' in love? Knowing me I'll just trip over it and graze my knee on the gravel of humiliation.


Haylah Swinton is fairly confident she's brilliant at being a girl.

She's an ace best friend, a loving daughter, and an INCREDIBLY patient sister to her four-year-old total nutter of a brother, Noah.

But she has a secret. She wants to be a stand-up comedian, but she's pretty sure girls like her - big girls, girls who don't get all the boys, girls who a lot of people don't see - don't belong on stage.

That hasn't stopped her dreaming...

About the Author

Rebecca Elliott

Rebecca Elliott

When Rebecca was six, she precociously pronounced that she wanted to be ‘an artist and a writer’. After a ‘brief’ detour from this career plan involving wanting to be Stephen Fry, a degree in philosophy and a dull office job, she fulfilled her dream in 2001 when she became a full time children’s book illustrator. Ultimately proving, if nothing else, that once her mind is made up she really can’t be bothered to change it.
Since then she has become an award-winning and bestselling author of over 30 books for children, including her ongoing series Owl Diaries which has sold over 6 million copies worldwide.
If she’s not story-making Rebecca can be found reading, podcasting with her comedian best friend, drumming or singing in her band, making something (normally a mess), or just hanging out in sunny Suffolk with her gorgeous children, permanently frantic dog Frida and sarcastic cat Bernard.

Read more

More titles by this author