Spectacles

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Spectacles is the hilarious creative & incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian writer & presenter Sue Perkins 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 & 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?' & ' 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 for Spectacles' Drama tears & 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 of The Miniaturist' Very funny It seems there are two Sue Perkins the TV one who gabbles & pratfalls & 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' It's a proper book so well written Tight & bright & full of inspiration' Chris Evans Radio 2