Life, Love and The Archers: recollections, reviews and other prose
Wendy Cope
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Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted to the serious, taken from a lifetime of published and unpublished work, and all with Cope's lightness of touch.
Here readers can meet the Enid-Blyton-obsessed schoolgirl, the ambivalent daughter, the amused teacher, the sensitive journalist, the cynical romantic and the sardonic television critic, as well as touching on books and writers who have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.
Wendy Cope is a master of the one-liner as well as the couplet, the telling review as well as the sonnet, and Life, Love and the Archers gives us a wonderfully entertaining and unforgettable portrait of one of England's favourite writers.
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Funny, melancholy and devastatingly observant. - The TimesWithout doubt the wittiest of contemporary English poets. - Dr Rowan WilliamsNobody can match Wendy Cope when it comes to writing about men and love. - Daily MailThat rarest of things: a best-selling poet. - Independent
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