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Yardsticks For Failure

Adventures in Friendship and Fluster: the hilarious debut from the Taskmaster Season 15 contestant

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Yardsticks For Failure

By: Ivo Graham
Narrated by: Ivo Graham
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 'A hilarious and original voice' Josh Widdicombe

'Delightfully smart and impossibly charming' Dolly Alderton

'His writing is as unpredictable and brilliant as he is' Sophie Duker

'I've got nothing but love for Mr Ivo Graham' Frankie Boyle

Yardsticks For Failure is the story of the most frantic two years of Ivo Graham's already quite frantic life, 2022-2024, two years of tasks and tears and everything in between.

The amount of stuff Ivo packs into these two years will excite you and exhaust you, enthral you and appal you, and many more carefully choreographed pairs of verbs if you'd like this sentence to be even longer. There are some short sentences in this book, such as this one. And this one. But there are some long old sentences too, sentences that take you on whole thrilling adventures all by themselves, sentences that are rich in music and memory, mischief and mourning, sentences that bring you right alongside Ivo in his train-chasing, gamefacing,
name-dropping, heart-stopping chaos of an existence. No one lives like Ivo does, and no one writes like him either. There are failures in his life but this book is not one of them. Come on in.

'Not a complete waste of his school fees' Jenny Eclair

'A trash man from a trash family' James Acaster©2024 Ivo Graham Career Success Performing Arts Time Management & Productivity Funny Witty Heartfelt Feel-Good Inspiring Thought-Provoking

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Ivo has now asserted himself in my mind as my favorite comedian. The hilarity is
dense, you must listen closely or miss the gold.

Hilarious! He's funnier than josh widdicombe

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A gloriously written ode of a madman getting in his own way, whilst navigating love loss and all sorts in-between. So my tantalising turns of phrase you will run out of space in your “I’ll use that” bank, and remember none.
After, and possibly during, you’ll need a sit-down
Fantastic.

Thoughtful, heartwarm/breaking & stressful

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A fantastic testament to life and friendship. Heartwarming, heartbreaking, thought provoking, and funny! I came away from this book with this: take the photos, do the things, find joy in as many things as possible, be spontaneous, laugh and make people laugh. Be more Tom. Be more Ivo.

Heartwarming hilarity!

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I absolutely loved this book! Ivo has a wonderful turn of phrase and the entire book is beautifully written. It is by turns hilariously funny and heartbreakingly touching. My only gripe is that it isn't longer! Thoroughly recommended.

Beautiful book

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For a book full of failure and loss, this was really enjoyable. I was captivated by Graham’s turn of phrase, detail and self-deprecation. His emotion and love for friends and family feels genuine and heart-felt. And the scatter-gun nature of the story-telling is engrossing. Really, a fab book.

A really enjoyable book

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