Spectacles
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  • Published: 8 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781405918572
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

Spectacles

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8 Oct 2015
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17 Dec 2015
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3 Oct 2016
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The first book from the hugely talented Sue Perkins: comedian, writer, presenter and firm favourite on British television and radio for nearly fifteen years

Sadly, a recycling 'incident' destroyed the bulk of my childhood stuff that my mum had kept. This has meant two things: firstly, Dear Reader, you will never get to read a poem about corn on the cob. Secondly, it's left me with no choice but to actually write this thing myself.

This, my first ever book, will answer questions such as 'Is Mary Berry real?', 'Is it true you wear a surgical truss?' and 'Does orchestral conducting simply involve waving your arms around?'

Most of this book is true. I have, of course, amplified my more positive characteristics in an effort to make you like me.
  • Published: 8 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781405918572
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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Praise for Spectacles

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

This smart and funny story is far from the photo-heavy, ghost-written volumes that it will compete with . . . Perkins is such a good writer . . . incapable of writing a boring sentence

Cathy Rentzenbrink, Sunday Express