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Drama, tears and 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 and pratfalls, and 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)
Utterly wonderful. It's very, very funny and poignant and it's very Sue Perkins and that's the bliss of it (Nina Stibbe,
bestselling author of Love, Nina and Man at the Helm)
Relentlessly cheering, Spectacles is as charming and funny as Perkins herself. Like going for a long, slightly drunken
lunch with your naughtiest friend (Red Magazine)
Brilliantly written... fearlessly honest and full of heart, it will also make you laugh like a gibbon (Heat *****)
I absolutely loved it . . . whip smart and very funny (Fanny Blake Woman & Home)
Life, love and loss - it's all here ... Warm, crisp and beautifully layered - like its author,Spectacles is a complete
delight (Independent on Sunday)
[A] deftly written and belly-laugh funny autobiography . . . Though she never suggests she might be remotely brainy, she
clearly is. Her vocabulary makes Will Self's seem lacking, her writing is full of discreetly clever allusions . . . If
she wants her readers to like her, she certainly achieved it with this reviewer who laughed and cried and secretly wants
her as a best friend (Elizabeth Fremantle Daily Express)
Sue's memoir will leave you feeling like you've made a new best friend. Introducing us to a cast of friends, family and
love interests, and not forgetting a psychopathic nun, Sue picks apart life in a refreshingly honest, warm and downright
hilarious way... Spectacles firmly cements her as an exciting writer of the future (OK Magazine)
About the Author
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Sue Perkins is perhaps best known for being one half of double act Mel and Sue, where she plays the part of Mel.
Together, the pair have bounced, shouted and gurned their way through countless hours of television, most memorably
Light Lunch and its later counterpart, the imaginatively titled Late Lunch.
Over the years, Sue has worked on a wide range of solo projects, including documentaries on art, popular fiction and
history. In 2008 she appeared on the BBC show Maestro, culminating in her conducting at the Last Night of the Proms. She
has also collaborated with food-critic Giles Coren on the Supersizers series, where the duo power-ate their way through
five centuries of lungs, livers and testicles whilst half-cut on sherry.
Sue hosts the panel show, Insert Name Here, as well as being a regular contributor to Just A Minute, QI and The Last
Leg. She is also the presenter of the Game of Thrones companion show, Thronecast.
East of Croydon is Sue's second book. Her first, Spectacles, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Oh, and she used to do a cake show on BBC1
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