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Informationen zum Autor Sukh Ojla is a comedian, actor and writer. Her first play Pyar Actually toured nationwide in 2017 and 2018. She has performed on Jonathan Ross's Comedy Club , BBC2's Big Asian Stand Up Show and across the BBC Asian Network. She has appeared on Mock The Week (BBC) and Sorry I Didn't Know (ITV). In 2019, she took her debut solo show For Sukh's Sake to Edinburgh, which received rave reviews. She is currently on a nationwide tour with her new show Life Sukhs . As an actor, Sukh recently appeared in Bridgerton (Netflix), The End of the F**king World (Channel 4), Feel Good (Channel 4) and as a regular role in GameFace (Channel 4) and Class Dismissed (CBBC) and appeared in feature film Victoria and Abdul . Sunny is her debut novel. Klappentext This actually is a love story, just not the one Sunny was looking for . . .Sunny is the queen of living a double life. To her friends, she's thirty, flirty and thriving - the joker of the group, always on hand to entertain her friends with anecdotes from all the terrible dates she's been on, while they settle down with long-term partners and mortgages. But on the other hand, she's just moved back in with her parents who don't know anything about her sneaking out to dates, leaving them with a trail of little white lies...How long can she keep it up for? And is it really worth it?When her two lives collide in her parents' hallway, as she's coming back late from dinner with a guy, she has to tell the truth. But to Sunny's horror, her mum isn't as appalled as expected, and instead offers a strange deal. Sunny can keep going on dates, as long as her mum gets a say in who she dates. What could be worse?! After many mortifying mum-dating-app moments, Sunny finally has the opportunity to start being honest to her mum about everything. If only she can start being honest with herself too . . .SUNNY by Sukh Ojla is a relatable, hilarious, and life-affirming novel. It is warm and disarmingly honest, exploring family, love and mental health. Perfect for fans of Grown Ups by Marian Keyes and Olive by Emma Gannon. Vorwort SUNNY is a refreshingly honest and warm novel about love, family and mental health from actor, comedian and writer Sukh Ojla. Zusammenfassung 'If you've ever felt lonely, overlooked, unappreciated and just "wrong" this is the book for you . . . Very funny, blisteringly honest' Marian Keyes 'I was laughing from the very first page. Sunny is a big, bright novel that radiates energy and warmth just like the title. Sukh is such a fun and exciting new voice in fiction . Give a copy of this book to all your pals!' Emma Gannon ' Bracingly honest, funny and sharp . . . it took me back to reading Bridget Jones's Diary . Fast, irreverent, but relatable' Adele Parks, Platinum This actually is a love story, just not the one Sunny was looking for . . . Sunny is the queen of living a double life. To her friends, she's the entertaining, eternally upbeat, single one, always on hand to share hilarious and horrifying date stories. But while they're all settling down with long-term partners and mortgages, Sunny is back in her childhood bedroom at thirty, playing the role of the perfect daughter. She spends her time watching the Sikh channel, making saag and samosey with her mum, hiding gins-in-a-tin in her underwear drawer and sneaking home in the middle of the night after dates, trying but failing to find 'the one'. She juggles both lives perfectly . . . on the outside, at least. But when her mum sees a guy dropping Sunny home one evening, Sunny's life gets a little complicated. Now her mum wants to know about the life she's hidden from her for so long. Sunny is well versed i...
