Entering the crowded market of the celeb autobiography, Sue Perkins has managed to bring a fresh approach to the genre with a witty and funny view of her life so far - making this autobiography a winner. How much is true or gussied up for a laugh is hard to say but at base there's the story of a girl from Croydon who manages to get to the top in a very indirect fashion. It's an engaging story that does involve cake – but not a lot.
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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.
Spectacles features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
Spectacles is available in Paperback, Hardback
Spectacles was written by Sue Perkins and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Spectacles has 441 pages
£11.69