A Funny Thing Happened On The Way

Full of fun, and that zest of intelligence that never left her after she had become famous and a “name” … Sharing her own feelings of happiness was Nancy’s art and privilege, a rare one in this day and place * SUNDAY TIMES *It is a happy, hilarious book … N Spain, as she liked to call herself, loved to make people laugh, very often at herself * DAILY EXPRESS *Rumbustiously she rattles from childhood memories to TV gossip, anecdote, wisecrack, name-dropping and travelogue … a high-spirited projection of the admired and lamented image * DAILY TELEGRAPH *Nancy’s great qualities were her zest for life and her warm, North-country heart * TATLER *Have you ever read a book with this for a side-heading to a chapter: “put that angel down, you don’t know where she’s been”? No? Well, start right now * ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS *A gay, generous autobiography-cum-travel book which the author finished only a few hours before her tragic last flight * SUNDAY EXPRESS *Some people thought her merely bohemian, but others were grateful to have so engaging a role-model * INDEPENDENT *As funny and warm and clever as Nancy herself. You can hear her voice in every line – Frank Muir and Denis Norden

Nancy Spain was a prominent novelist, broadcaster and journalist. She was a columnist for the Daily Express and She magazine in the 1950s and 1960s. She also appeared on many radio broadcasts, particularly on Woman’s Hour, and later as a panellist on the television programmes What’s My Line? and Juke Box Jury. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1917, she was the great-niece of the legendary Mrs Beeton. During the second world war she worked as a driver and served in the WRNS and after the war she published several detective novels set at a girls’ school. Always controversial, her column-writing caused the Daily Express to be sued - twice - by Evelyn Waugh.

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