In hospital, please recommend me a good, light hearted audiobook.

[Snozzlemaid]

I’m currently recovering in hospital following a ruptured brain aneurysm and all though I’m on a small ward with 3 others, two of them are annoying the fuck out of me.
Could you please recommend a good audiobook that may even make me laugh a little, so I can plug in my noise cancelling earplugs and shut the noise out.
And if I can get it from Borrowbox even better.

I have recently worked my way through the back catalogue of cabin pressure after a recommendation on here and thoroughly enjoyed it

I'm listening to Green Dot by Madeleine Gray at the moment. I'm decorating and it's fun enough to keep me going without having to concentrate. Think Bridget Jones retold by Gen Z.
Lot's of sex and swearing - so you have to not mind that.

I always recommend shit my dad says for laugh out loud

I find unabridged Dick Francis stories can get me through miles of driving or housework. Not funny but decent books and gripping. Break in and Bolt are good and are linked by the same characters.

David Nicholls - You are Here

Hope you get well soon

I have just had Heroes by Stephen Fry off borrow box. V entertaining.

Nothing comes close to P G Wodehouse. Pure light and air and beauty and joy. He is sublime (“a balm for hurt souls,” as Stephen Fry called him). Right Ho Jeeves is his masterpiece, imo.

Douglas Adams always cheers me up as well, and so does Patrick Fermor. Evelyn Waugh, weirdly, cheers me up too, even though he’s often vicious and dark.

As for non-fiction, Bill Bryson is a go to. I also love Brian Blessed’s autobiography. If you can get him reading his own stuff on audiobook it will make you laugh out loud. I also like the essays of Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Oh, and Robert Graves’ Goodbye to all That. It’s full of suffering, but the stoicism and courage of that WW1 generation never fails to inspire me.

Dawn French - Twat files (I think!)
Hope you feel better soon!

Terry Pratchett is very much an acquired taste.

I appreciate that his writing is clever and there are some funny moments, but I can't stand him.