The Funny Thing About Death

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Marvellous though she appears to have been in the main, Annie’s ego and insensitivity are aspects that Jo doesn’t shy away from. Kathy Burke and Jerome Flynn were at Annie’s house parties and the artist Bridget Riley was an employer who became a friend and mentor. Jo then bluntly offers some context by suggesting that her sister was probably off her head on medication at the time and it probably never happened.

In fact, I can’t help but wonder if Annie might be slightly put out (if also proud) by how good a job she has made of this personal and tragic story. Yes, this is the complete 4-part series where Jo Caulfield, 'the funniest female stand-up on Radio 4' presents her glorious mixture of bitchy friendliness, waspish likeability and foot-in-mouth populism - but always with charm. Like her stand-up, Jo Caulfield’s caustic wit and razor-sharp observations make her account of life with her sister, even in the worst of times, as entertaining as it is touching and relatable.

It reads like the clarity of distilling oneself down to one's essence rather than an admission of failure. Captivatingly told and filled with enchantment, it made me glad I had known Annie and glad that I know Jo' -- Robin Ince 'A beautiful, bold portrait of a much-loved sister that will speak to everyone who has loved and lost and everyone who is yet to lose someone. Whenever new comics ask me for advice, I always tell them: the audience have come along to have a good time, the audience want to laugh, so don't be scared of them.

Marvellous though she appears to have been in the main, Annie's ego and insensitivity are aspects that Jo doesn't shy away from. Like her stand-up, Jo Caulfield’s caustic wit and razor-sharp observations make her account of life with her sister, even in the worst of times, as entertaining as it is touching and relatable. You Wore It First – which will be published by Polygon next summer – is a reference to the stand-up always wearing her elder sibling’s hand-me-downs. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. My guess is that every one of us would read The Funny Thing About Death and nod at so many moments that echo what we’ve gone through or are going through.Almost right up until Annie died in 2016, aged 57, Caulfield admits that she was often ignorant of her sister’s prognosis, believing that she would recover, leave the hospice and simply go home. But partly it was allowing Annie, who preferred the freedom of writing for radio to the compromises of television, to retain control of her own story.

The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. I’ve written a book which I hope is in part a celebration of my big sister who died of cancer age 57. This book is a short honest insight into a relationship between two sisters (both of whom are perhaps a touch more interesting than most siblings in life) and how an illness can, and in this case did, affect that bond.Honest, raw, surprising, life-affirming, and because it's Jo Caulfield, of course, it's very, very funny.