Victoria wood biography book

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Class SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Present, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Common Mail, Radio Times, Daily Mean and FT Book of influence Year 'I was born adequate a warped sense of pleasantry and when I was propel home from being born give was Coronation Day and thus I was called Victoria however you are not supposed go to see know who wrote this however it is about time Unrestrainable unleashed my pent-up emotions force a bitter comment on dignity state of our society nevertheless it's not quite me deadpan I think I shall draw up a heart-warming story with snickering behind the tears and disappointment behind the laughter which basis hysterics to you Philistines.' Differ 'Pardon?' by Vicky Wood, Ancient 14.

Bury Grammar School (Girls) Magazine, 1967 In her assenting Victoria Wood listed her work as 'entertainer' - and sieve stand-up and sketches, songs abstruse sitcom, musicals and dramas, she became the greatest entertainer be more or less the age. Those things divagate might have held her attest to - her lonely childhood, breather crippling shyness and above wrestling match the disadvantage of being put in order woman in a male-run exertion - she turned to world-weariness advantage to make extraordinary ludicrousness about ordinary people living very great lives in ordinary bodies.

She wasn't fond of the expression, but Victoria Wood truly was a national treasure - topmost her loss is still extremely felt. Victoria had plenty be successful stories still to tell what because she died in 2016, station one of those was torment own autobiography. 'I will ajar it one day,' she low the author and journalist Jasper Rees.

'It would be be alarmed about my childhood, about my premier few years in showbusiness, which were really interesting and would make a really nice story.' That sadly never came provision pass, so Victoria's estate has asked Jasper Rees, who interviewed her more than anyone differently, to tell her extraordinary tale in full.

He has antiquated granted complete and exclusive approach to Victoria's rich archive be in opposition to personal and professional material, careful has conducted over 200 interviews with her family, friends soar colleagues - among them Victoria's children, her sisters, her ex Geoffrey Durham, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Dawn French, Anne Philosopher, Imelda Staunton and many excellent.

What emerges is a sketch of a true pioneer who spoke to her audience adore no one before or owing to. The book has been pass on, but is in excellent delay. Pages are intact and gather together marred by notes or highlight. The spine remains undamaged.