I'm Only In It for the Parking
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  • Published: 16 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473571334
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 46 min
  • Narrator: Lost Voice Guy aka Lee Ridley
  • RRP: $22.99

I'm Only In It for the Parking

Life and laughter from the priority seats

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16 May 2019
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16 May 2019
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29 Jul 2021
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From the winner of Britain's Got Talent, this is an hilarious and thought-provoking account of life with a blue badge.

Penguin presents I'm Only In It for the Parking written and read by Lost Voice Guy aka Lee Ridley.

What’s the worst thing about being disabled? Is it the shameless staring? Is it that people assume you’re a bit thick because you can’t speak? Or is it the fact that your friends always take you to theme parks just so they can jump the queues?

In fact, it’s the stupid questions that really rile Lee Ridley, aka Lost Voice Guy. And over the years he’s been inundated with them, from people who have failed to engage their brains before opening their mouths. Which is where I’m Only In It for the Parking comes in - think of it as a disabled FAQ, with funny (sometimes painfully funny) stories from Lee’s less-ordinary life.

If you think you know what it’s like to be disabled, prepare to have your perceptions skewered by the much-loved Britain’s Got Talent winner, the brilliant stand-up who struggles to stand up, the Geordie without the accent. And before you ask … no, he really can’t speak at all. But he definitely has something to say.
  • Published: 16 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473571334
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 46 min
  • Narrator: Lost Voice Guy aka Lee Ridley
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Lost Voice Guy aka Lee Ridley

Lee Ridley is also known as Lost Voice Guy. He is a stand-up comedian, writer and tech geek based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Lee developed cerebral palsy as a baby and communicates using an iPad. A bit like Stephen Hawking. Though, in Lee’s words, better looking. He is a BBC New Comedy Award winner, his Radio 4 sitcom Ability has had two series and counting, and he is the winner of 2018’s Britain’s Got Talent. Lee has appeared on Live at the Apollo and at the Royal Variety Performance, sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe and had his first nationwide tour in 2019. He is also an ambassador for Scope. I’m Only In It for the Parking is his first book.

Praise for I'm Only In It for the Parking

PRAISE FOR LOST VOICE GUY'S STAND-UP: 'Self-lacerating comedy with something to say.'

The Guardian

PRAISE FOR LOST VOICE GUY'S STAND-UP: 'A talent for real anger that leaves us amused.'

The Times

PRAISE FOR LOST VOICE GUY'S STAND-UP: 'A mix of observation and self-deprecation which confirms he's got talent.'

The Telegraph

Comedy genius... The funniest book I've read in years.

DAVID WALLIAMS

A unique and brilliant comic voice.

ROSS NOBLE

Funny, charming and full of unique insights.

FRANCESCA MARTINEZ, author of What the **** is Normal?

A truly eye-opening book from a fantastic comedian.

ADAM KAY

PRAISE FOR LOST VOICE GUY'S STAND-UP: 'A comedian with an edge and a honed sense of his material.'

Front Row

Lee's wicked sense of humour shines through.

Andrew Hayden-Smith

The reader gets to know him as a good-natured, sometimes mischievous bloke - a real person and not just the comic with the electronic voice.

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