I love Sandi, I love her comedy, I love what she stands for & I love her unassuming persona... so when I was 'wished' this book I was over the moon!

If your expecting a usual memoir of 'this is my life, i was born on this date & lived here' etc etc then expect something completely different.

It basically feels like you you are sat next to Sandi (which is not bus etiquette unless there are no other seats available!) whilst you ride on the top of the number 12 bus and have a chat. Its Sandy's musings on life, a tour guide, her points of view and a brilliant history lesson all rolled into one.

Full of wit, humour, warmth and a whole load of interesting facts, some personal, I could not put it down.

An easy and interesting read that's just made me love her even more.

Thanks to netgalley and Little Brown Book Group UK for the ARC.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I didn’t enjoy this book. I had high hopes as find the author hilarious but it just seemed to jump all over the place. There was no flow to the book. Disappointing.

With thanks to Little Brown & NetGalley for the ARC

Sandi Toksvig is someone I've enjoyed watching and listening to for years, so I was looking forward to this book.
If you're looking for a straightforward memoir, this is not it.
This is so much more, part memoir, part tour guide, part feminist essay and most of all I think, it's a love letter to London.
Sandi travels from home to work everyday on the number 12 bus. She gives us an insightful guide to the sights and sounds on the way. She gets off and explores and details the major and not so major places and people along the way.
She points out the disparity between the sexes in street and place names. The quirky, the historic and the great and goos are all explored.
There is also plenty of the memoir interspersed throughout.

All in all a brilliant read. Not quite what I was expecting but all the better for it.

Highly recommended.

Wonderful, charming read which is set out really nicely.

Sandy writes really nicely and I enjoyed this book and I don’t normally read memoirs as such.

Come. Sit on the number 12 bus with Sandi (on, not with, unless there are no other seats available - there is an etiquette to be adhered to) as it wends its way along its route from Dulwich to the BBC Centre.

Hop on and off at whim as Sandi introduces you to people of note. People that we all ought to be aware of, but sadly rarely are.

Full of wit, memories and musings. I adored this book and flew through it. The next time that I am going to London, I think I just may look up this route.

Sandi Toksviq not only describes the history of the area around the bus stops on the number 12 route, but also provides an interesting and witty insight into her life.

I had the pleasure of seeing Sandi Toksvig speak at the Hay Literary Festival earlier this year so I felt I had a sneak preview of some of the ideas in this book! Prior to this, I had no idea about her other than as QI and Bake Off host and that is a travesty because she is absolutely fascinating (as well as really lovely and funny too!)

This book has the rather unusual structure of stories connected by Sandi Toksvig's rides through London on the Number 12 bus. This journey triggers memories and thoughts that spill out onto the pages of this book. Some are personal, some are thoughts on the history of the area of London or society in general. There's no real order to the ideas, but the book is an engaging and interesting jaunt through Toksvig's thought processes.

Anyone expecting a traditional autobiography may be disappointed, but this offers so much more. There are personal details, for example about Toksvig's Danish broadcaster father and the job for Danish Radio that took the family all over the world. That would be enough to fill a book on its own, but added to this is Toksvig's reflections on her own sexuality, her feminism, her children and the celebrity world of which she is part. Then there is the London history, sometimes personal, sometimes not - I felt like I got to know interesting facts about lots of the areas on the bus route. Toksvig is also a charming and relatable narrator; she doesn't rose tint the things she has found tough, but there is humour and warmth in the writing and she moves deftly between topics so that the reader is carried along with her.

I can't express how delightful this book is - a real treasure trove of a book that will make you look at Sandi Toksvig (and the Number 12 Routemaster) with a whole new respect. I thought she was fantastic at Hay; now I'm convinced that she is a national treasure! This is funny and entertaining and inspiring and moving and utterly, utterly charming all at once.

Loved it. Apart from an unusual premise for a book - the top of a bus - it's fun and informative. Interesting facts are recorded alongside details of Sandi's life from childhood to the present. She has a wit that exudes familiarity. Of course, there are laugh out loud moments as well as more serious topics which she doesn't brush over or belittle. I had a rare old time reading Between the Stops.