Don't Make Me Laugh : A darkly funny feminist novel about power, patriarchy and the women who fight back - Julia Raeside
Julia Raeside
- Pages · 336 pages
- Publication Date · 14/08/2025
- Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
A great book, an important book that will start a discussion that needs to be had.my heart was in my mouth' Marian Keyes
'Exhilarating, viscerally thrilling and SO timely - an ambitious dark comedy that really delivers. Hugely smart, with so much emotional depth and resonance' Daisy Buchanan
'Sharp, dark and outrageously funny,' Marianne Levy
'This is an honest, funny, devastating and timely book' Jenny ColganDon't Make Me Laugh balances anger and humour with the deftest of touches. It is a story about power and control and manipulation, about gendered roles in both the workplace and our personal lives, and about how women are set up in competition with each other. And ultimately - satisfyingly - it's a story about fighting back.
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