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Sue Perkins
Sue Perkins

Sue Perkins

  • 55 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, producer, comedian and presenter

Sue Perkins - Spectacles: A Memoir

Sue Perkins - Spectacles: A Memoir

Spectacles is the creative and incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins.

She says: "When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept all of it - every bus ticket, postcard, school report - from the moment I was born to the moment I finally had the confidence to turn round and say 'Why is our house full of this shit?'

"Sadly, a recycling 'incident' destroyed the bulk of this archive. This has meant two things: firstly, Dear Reader, you will never get to see countless drawings of wizards, read a poem about corn on the cob, or marvel at the kilos of brown flowers I so lovingly pressed as a child. 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 'Is a non-spherically symmetric gravitational pull from outside the observable universe responsible for some of the observed motion of large objects such as galactic clusters in the universe?'

"Most of this book is true. I have, of course, amplified my more positive characteristics in an effort to make you like me."

First published: Thursday 8th October 2015

  • Published: Thursday 28th July 2016
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Pages: 464
  • Catalogue: 9781405918558

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  • Published: Thursday 17th December 2015
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Minutes: 523

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