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  • Life, Love and The Archers

  • Recollections, Reviews, and Other Prose
  • By: Wendy Cope
  • Narrated by: Wendy Cope
  • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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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- recollections, reviews, and essays from the light-hearted to the serious, taken from a lifetime of published and unpublished work, and all with Cope's lightness of touch.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 listeners 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.
©2014 Wendy Cope (P)2014 John Murray Press
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Wish it had been more about poetry

The first chapters very appealing love her work and wanted to know more about her process. Felt latter part relied too much on detail from her time writing for the Spectator.

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