I've read too many sad books...recommend me something clever but funny please

[BoogleMcGroogle]

I manage about a book a week. They seem to be getting incrementally darker. Having last week lost myself in Gary Younge's incredible One Day in the Death of America, I thought I'd try light relief and just finished The Beekeeper of Aleppo. Great book, not exactly light relief. I now feel really quite sad.

Please, please recommend me something sharp and very funny to brighten my weekend. Fiction or nonfiction. For reference, my absolute favourite books of all time are Tales of the City, with most of Updike coming a close second. I have a history of incontinence on public transport when reading David Sedaris.

Help! 🙂

[Thirtyrock39]

Old baggage by Lisa Evans i loved and found uplifting .
Laurie graham is an underated writer who's books I love and they're funny, great characters and easy to read. Often historically based .
Olive kitteridge I loved as well

[MilkshakeandFries]

@Achangeagain1 May we be forgiven is bizarre. You hate the characters and it's dark but it's so random and dry you laugh out loud. It's fast become one of the most memorable books I've ever read.

Thanks @BoogleMcGroogle I'll get that one on my wish list!

[PaperMonster]

Am currently reading The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared. It’s very entertaining.

[Firefretted]

James Herriot for lovely, gentle comedy.

[Asitgoes]

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. Coming of age in an eccentric family in the 1930s & just such a lovely book

[CatsGoPurrrr]

All of the James Herriot books.

[Achangeagain1]

@MilkshakeandFries @BoogleMcGroogle will give it a go. I like books with unlikeable characters.

[bettsbattenburg]

Nick Spalding - Dumped Actually
The Complte Uxbridge English Dictionary - laugh out loud funny and very, very clever.

[squashyhat]

Not RTFT but anything by Jenny Eclair. Her stories are often poignant but her characters are great and there are lots of laughs. There's also a series of 15 minute stories currently on BBC Sounds called Little Lifetimes which she wrote and are read by well-known actresses. Very clever.