Summary
An addictive, exceptional memoir of a woman’s life and a long and turbulent marriage, that breaks your heart but also makes you howl with laughter.
Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she’d acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn’t going to plan… Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant, impossible, charismatic and kind, he was irresistible. Sex, drugs and jazz were a heady combination for the girl from Essex. Suddenly it was the swing…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784704605 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784704601 |
| Author: | Diana Melly |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 203g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
Hers is an extraordinary story, exceptionally well told
Hers is an extraordinary story, exceptionally well told – Lilian Pizzichini * Independent on Sunday *
In the course of an unstructured life, her compassionate nature matures and endures, to the benefit of a great many people – Joan Bakewell * New Statesman *
Her life makes a wonderful read – Caroline Gascoigne * Sunday Times *
It is surely rare to find a book that describes a marriage with such breathtaking intimacy as Diana Melly does in her autobiography, Take a Girl Like Me – Nicholas Haslam * Spectator *
Diana Melly writes with a kind of stoned simplicity that is very effective, telling her often harrowing tale in a bleak and candid manner that carried great conviction * Sunday Telegraph *
Told with admirable candour * Woman & Home *
Hardly short of a masterpiece…Diana Melly writes with compelling candour * Daily Telegraph *
This is Diana Melly’s book, and she has the good literary sense (and the courage) to live in its pages in a way that makes me throw my hat in the air – Andrew O’Hagan * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Diana Melly
Diana Melly has been a nightclub hostess, model, novelist, mini-cab driver, wife, mother and grandmother. She was married to George Melly from 1963 until his death in 2007.
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