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Sophie is torn between her love of Africa and returning to England for the sake of her career in television but after collapsing in her office she finds herself ill in bed and is forced to take stock of her life.

Sophie has added more illustration and brought out a new edition to help people cope with long Covid. 

It sounds like a novel. But it's true - based on diaries prescribed as treatment by the BBC doctor.

~Appearing in the Daily Mail 2019~ 

Sophie has recently appeared on ITV News at Ten, BBC South Today, ITV Anglia News, BBC Antiques Roadshow and was quoted on BBC's 'Have I Got a Little Bit More News For You'

~On the front page for the Tavistock Festival~

Sophie Neville is often asked to comment on issues by the national press
Please click here for an article in the Telegraph

Please click here for an article in the Guardian

~Rudi the tame otter appearing in the ITV drama serial The Durrells~

Interviewed on Premier Radio, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, The World Service, BBC Radio Cumbria, BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Radio Tees, BBC Radio Berkshire, Lakeland Radio, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Solent, Good News Radio and a Christian Radio Station in the USA.

~The location where Funnily Enough is set~ 

Serialised in 11 issues of the national magazine iBelieve:

Funnily Enough excerpts serialised in iBelieve Magazine

Colour illustrated Kindle eBooks available from:

Amazon.co.uk ~ Amazon.com ~ Amazon.ca ~ Amazon.de ~ Amazon.fr ~ Amazon.es ~ Amazon.it ~ Amazon.com.br ~ Amazon.co.jp

Also available for other devices worldwide from Smashwords
On Nook ~ on Sony ~ on Diesel eBooks

'Funnily Enough'  ~ the paperback and hardback - with black and white illustrations click  here 

Funnily Enough (UK) ISBN-13: 978-1466213487 ISBN-10: 146621348 - click here

Amazon paperback edition (USA) Funnily Enough ISBN-13: 978-1466213487 ISBN-10: 146621348 - click here

Also available from the Book Depository UK  (free shipping worldwide), and Barnes and Noble

Hardcover editions, signed by the author ~ £20 including p+p within the UK ~ please email sophie@sophieneville.co.uk specifying the book title in the subject line

Hardcover editions from Lulu.com - click here

These hardback copies are lovely and make good presents

Paperback editions from Lulu.com - click here

Sophie Neville appearing in a four-page feature for Cotswold Life

20th April 2012 ~ Richard Kay reports on Funnily Enough's success in the Daily Mail

Funnily Enough

#1 in Humour on Kindle UK (April 2012)

The Book Trailer:

“…All plaudits to you for trying to describe and find humour in your darkest hour.” Clare Francis, Author

Interviewed on ‘Woman to Woman’  by Maria Toth, speaking about CFS, Swallows & Amazons and Funnily Enough on Premier Radio. Click here to Listen on Demand.

Sophie Neville signing books at The Arthur Ransome Society

~ TALKS featuring Funnily Enough ~

Sophie was based at the Film Cafe at the SE New Wine Summer Conference, hosted the Bible Society stand at the Spring Harvest festival and the 2018 Keswick Conference, where she will be giving a cultural talk at the Alhambra Cinema in Keswick on Saturday 28th July 2018.

The Stroud News & Journal

A review of 'Funnily Enough' in the print edition of The Church Times

From the Westmorland Gazette - May 2012

News pages ~ 2nd August 2012

Alastair Fothergill, one of the main characters in Funnily Enough, recently produced a number of feature films for DisneyNature including   African Cats , Chimpanzee, Monkey Kingdom and Bear and is currently editing the movie Dolphins.

Sophie Neville with Bee the Otter, one of the main characters in 'Funnily Enough'

22nd April 2012 ~ Funnily Enough entered the Top 100 in the paid Kindle Store Bestseller list and reached #2 in Kindle Store > Books > Humour 

21st April 2012 ~ Funnily Enough was in the Top Three under the categories:~

• #3 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Self Help & How To Guides
• #3 in Kindle Store > Books > Nonfiction > Parenting & Families
• #3 in Kindle Store > Books > Humour

Ten years ago I was given this verse:

“ Write the vision 
 And make it plain on tablets, 
 That he may run who reads it." 

Habakkuk 2:2

                                                                                                  

....I thought the word tablet very old fashioned at the time, never guessing that it would be possible to read it on an electronic gadget. Mine is called 'a tablet'.

Back in 2011 we went to China on a delegation with the Bible Society and were taken around the vast factory where China's bestseller is printed. There, on the first press, was my verse: Habakkuk 2:2. I returned to England and started to format Funnily Enough for publication.

At the Amity Press in Nanjing, China in 2011

'It will make a lovely present...' Peter Norbury

Available from the Aldeburgh Bookshop - click on this picture

Visit 'Funnily Enough' on Facebook ~ click here

or catch the monthly serialisation in the inspirational Christian lifestyle magazine iBelieve