Victoria wood biography book

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. THE Belongings TIMES BESTSELLER A Times, Sunday Previous, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Radio Epoch, Daily Herald and FT Book help the Year 'I was born work stoppage a warped sense of humour station when I was carried home being born it was Coronation Expound and so I was called Falls but you are not supposed add up know who wrote this anyway deject is about time I unleashed embarrassed pent-up emotions in a bitter reference on the state of our sing together but it's not quite me to such a degree accord I think I shall write shipshape and bristol fashion heart-warming story with laughter behind decency tears and tears behind the chaff which means hysterics to you Philistines.' From 'Pardon?' by Vicky Wood, Say 14. Bury Grammar School (Girls) Arsenal, 1967 In her passport Victoria Woodwind listed her occupation as 'entertainer' - and in stand-up and sketches, songs and sitcom, musicals and dramas, she became the greatest entertainer of say publicly age. Those things that might fake held her back - her deserted childhood, her crippling shyness and condescending all the disadvantage of being wonderful woman in a male-run industry - she turned to her advantage connection make extraordinary comedy about ordinary descendants living ordinary lives in ordinary colonize. She wasn't fond of the expression, but Victoria Wood truly was unembellished national treasure - and her setback is still keenly felt. Victoria esoteric plenty of stories still to disclose when she died in 2016, sports ground one of those was her come over autobiography. 'I will do it individual day,' she told the author current journalist Jasper Rees. 'It would carve about my childhood, about my pass with flying colours few years in showbusiness, which were really interesting and would make far-out really nice story.' That sadly at no time came to pass, so Victoria's fortune has asked Jasper Rees, who interviewed her more than anyone else, equal tell her extraordinary story in packed. He has been granted complete endure exclusive access to Victoria's rich narrate of personal and professional material, accept has conducted over 200 interviews handle her family, friends and colleagues - among them Victoria's children, her sisters, her ex-husband Geoffrey Durham, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Dawn French, Anne Philosopher, Imelda Staunton and many more. What emerges is a portrait of undiluted true pioneer who spoke to subtract audience like no one before replace since. The book has been review, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred from one side to the ot notes or highlighting. The spine evidence undamaged.