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Spectacles de Sue Perkins

Spectacles

Autor Sue Perkins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iul 2016
Discover the woman behind the spectacles in the hilarious, incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins, star ofMel & SueandThe Great British Bake Off

'Very funny. Reading her memoir is very like meeting her'Sunday Times

'Tight & bright & full of inspiration'Chris Evans, Radio 2

When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept all of it - every bus ticket, postcard, school report - from the moment I was born to the moment I finally had the confidence to turn round and say 'Why is our house full of this shit?'

Sadly, a recycling 'incident' destroyed the bulk of this archive.

This has meant two things: firstly, Dear Reader, you will never get to see countless drawings of wizards, read a poem about corn on the cob, or marvel at the kilos of brown flowers I so lovingly pressed as a child. Secondly, it's left me with no choice but to actually write this thing myself.

This, my first ever book, will answer questions such as 'Is Mary Berry real?', 'Is it true you wear a surgical truss?' and 'Is a non-spherically symmetric gravitational pull from outside the observable universe responsible for some of the observed motion of large objects such as galactic clusters in the universe?'

Most of this book is true. I have, of course, amplified my more positive characteristics in an effort to make you like me.

Thank you for reading.

Praise forSpectacles

'Drama, tears and laughs - Spectacles has got it all. A brilliant, touching memoir suffused with love, it reminds you that life is best lived at wonky angles. I ADORED it'Jessie Burton, bestselling author ofThe Miniaturist

'Very funny . . . It seems there are two Sue Perkins: the TV one, who gabbles and pratfalls, and the sensitive one who aches. The first of course, exists to protect the second. They can both write. The first writes comedy, the second tragedy; in this sense, reading her memoir is very like meeting her'Sunday Times
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405918558
ISBN-10: 1405918551
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 133 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Sue Perkinsis perhaps best known for being one half of double act Mel and Sue, where she plays the part of Mel. Together, the pair have bounced, shouted and gurned their way through countless hours of television, most memorablyLight Lunchand its later counterpart, the imaginatively titledLate Lunch.

Over the years, Sue has worked on a wide range of solo projects, including documentaries on art, popular fiction and history. In 2008 she appeared on the BBC showMaestro, culminating in her conducting at the Last Night of the Proms. She has also collaborated with food-critic Giles Coren on theSupersizersseries, where the duo power-ate their way through five centuries of lungs, livers and testicles whilst half-cut on sherry.

Sue hosts the panel show,Insert Name Here, as well as being a regular contributor toJust A Minute,QIandThe Last Leg. She is also the presenter of theGame of Thronescompanion show,Thronecast.

East of Croydonis Sue's second book. Her first,Spectacles, was aSunday Timesbestseller.

Oh, and she used to do a cake show on BBC1

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Recenzii

Drama, tears and laughs -Spectacleshas got it all. A brilliant, touching memoir suffused with love, it reminds you that life is best lived at wonky angles. I ADORED it
Very funny . . . It seems there are two Sue Perkins: the TV one, who gabbles and pratfalls, and the sensitive one who aches. The first of course, exists to protect the second. They can both write. The first writes comedy, the second tragedy; in this sense, reading her memoir is very like meeting her
It's a proper book . . . so well written. Tight & bright & full of inspiration
Utterly wonderful. It's very, very funny and poignant and it's very Sue Perkins and that's the bliss of it
Relentlessly cheering,Spectaclesis as charming and funny as Perkins herself. Like going for a long, slightly drunken lunch with your naughtiest friend
Brilliantly written... fearlessly honest and full of heart, it will also make you laugh like a gibbon
I absolutely loved it . . . whip smart and very funny
Life, love and loss - it's all here ... Warm, crisp and beautifully layered - like its author,Spectaclesis a complete delight
[A] deftly written and belly-laugh funny autobiography . . . Though she never suggests she might be remotely brainy, she clearly is. Her vocabulary makes Will Self's seem lacking, her writing is full of discreetly clever allusions . . . If she wants her readers to like her, she certainly achieved it with this reviewer who laughed and cried and secretly wants her as a best friend
Sue's memoir will leave you feeling like you've made a new best friend. Introducing us to a cast of friends, family and love interests, and not forgetting a psychopathic nun, Sue picks apart life in a refreshingly honest, warm and downright hilarious way...Spectaclesfirmly cements her as an exciting writer of the future
This smart and funny story is far from the photo-heavy, ghost-written volumes that it will compete with . . . Perkins is such a good writer . . . incapable of writing a boring sentence