Life, love and The Archers : recollections, reviews and other prose
Cope, Wendy, author2014
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With her sharp eye for human foibles and unfailing sense of humour, Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets. Now, thanks to this carefully curated prose collection consisting of a lifetime of published and unpublished work, readers can finally meet the Enid-Blyton-obsessed schoolgirl, the ambivalent daughter, the amused teacher, the sensitive journalist, the cynical romantic, the savagely funny television critic.
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Author:
Cope, Wendy, author, author
Imprint:
London : Two Roads, 2014.London : Two Roads, 2014.
Collation:
352 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
'ENTERTAINING AND MOVING' Independent on Sunday - 'WONDERFUL, WISTFUL AND HAS SOME WISECRACKING ONE LINERS' Tatler - 'ALWAYS WITTY AND INSIGHTFUL' Good Housekeeping Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted to the serious, taken from a lifetime of published and unpublished work, and all with Cope's lightness of touch. Here readers can meet the Enid-Blyton-obsessed schoolgirl, the ambivalent daughter, the amused teacher, the sensitive journalist, the cynical romantic and the sardonic television critic, as well as touching on books and writers who have informed a lifetime of reading and writing. Wendy Cope is a master of the one-liner as well as the couplet, the telling review as well as the sonnet, and Life, Love and the Archers gives us a wonderfully entertaining and unforgettable portrait of one of England's favourite writers. A book for anyone who's ever fallen in love, tried to give up smoking, or consoled themselves that they'll never be quite as old as Mick Jagger.
ISBN:
9781444795363 (hbk)
Dewey class:
828.9208828.9208 COP
Language:
English
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BRN:
1662255