Life, Love and The Archers
recollections, reviews and other prose
$31.58
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2015
Summary
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. 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prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted to the serious, taken from a lifetime of published and unpublished work, and all with Cope’s lightness of touch.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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444795387 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444795384 |
| Author: | Wendy Cope |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Two Roads |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
Her writing is always witty and insightful
Funny, melancholy and devastatingly observant. - The Times
Without doubt the wittiest of contemporary English poets. - Dr Rowan WilliamsNobody can match Wendy Cope when it comes to writing about men and love. - Daily MailThat rarest of things: a best-selling poet. - IndependentAbout The Author
Wendy Cope
Wendy Cope read history at Oxford and then worked for 15 years as a London primary school teacher. Her first book of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986. Since then she has been a freelance writer. Her most recent book of poems is Family Values, published in 2011. She lives in Ely.
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