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Now out in paperback, the successful autobiography from the famous and well-loved columnist and author of COOKING IN A BEDSITTER comes her autobiography. Witty and brilliant, these are frank and funny tales
Selective Memory
an autobiography
$52.19
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2008
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Summary
On her husband’s choice of neckwear:
Did you buy that tie ‘ ‘Of course I did - how do you think I got it ‘‘I assumed it had been given away free with something.’Katharine Whitehorn pioneered the first of the personal columns. She told us how it really was. She was funny - and smart. The Observer’s star columnist for 40 years, she is also famous for COOKING IN A BEDSITTER. Much loved for her frankness and honesty, her autobiography is about family, stu…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844082391 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844082393 |
| Author: | Katharine Whitehorn |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
There is a fair amount of cheerful cynicism here, but also a touching memoir of times and people past - TIMES
Humorous and bittersweet - OBSERVERKatharine Whitehorn’s long-awaited and beautifully achieved autobiography, the best present you could give, a book to treasure for its wit, honesty, good sense and warm laughter … What she writes is timelessly intelligent, agelessly elegant - TELEGRAPHDry, aphoristic, keenly intelligent - TIMESAbout The Author
Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Whitehorn grew up in Mill Hill and studied at Cambridge. She has had distinguished career on Fleet Street; working for the Observer from 1960 to 1996 with stints at Picture Post and the Spectator among others. She is currently Saga magazine’s resident agony aunt.
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