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'If you feel that sense that there is something missing from your life, some gap between who you are on the inside and who you are on the outside - then this is the book for you.
'This is, as the title says, not actually a book about Benedict Cumberbatch.
'In fact, it's a book about women and what we love, about what happens to women's passions after we leave adolescence and how the space for joy in our lives is squeezed ever smaller as we age, and why. More importantly, it's about what happens if you subvert that narrative and simply love something like you used to.
'Drawing upon her personal experience of unexpectedly falling for the British actor Benedict Cumberbatch while stuck at home with two young children, Carvan challenges the reader to stop instinctively resisting the possibility of experiencing pleasure. Hers is clarion rallying cry: find your thing, whatever it may be, and love it like your life depends on it.
'Funny, intelligent, transporting and liberating, this book is a total joy.' (Publication summary)
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Peculiar Tale of a Cumberbatch Obsession
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 March 2022; (p. 17)
— Review of This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch 2022 single work autobiography
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Peculiar Tale of a Cumberbatch Obsession
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 March 2022; (p. 17)
— Review of This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch 2022 single work autobiography
Awards
- 2023 shortlisted ACT Notable Awards — Nonfiction
- 2022 winner Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Writing