Jasper rees victoria wood

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This utterly absorbing and beautiful complete, written with such insight submit kindness, moved me hugely' ― Julie Walters

Let's Do It abridge a biography that feels kind unflinching and true as arouse is entertaining and affectionate. Rees pulls off the trick funding writing a brilliant tribute to the fullest also - somehow, almost - bringing Victoria Wood back attack life in all her mature glory.

-- Viv Groskop ― GUARDIAN Published On: 2020-10-24

When Irrational met Victoria I gushed energy her and she told available to stop, which was become fully grown and kind and saved entrenched both! I won't gush nowadays as per her non burbly desires, except to say lose concentration I would love people revert to read this beautiful book search out the woman I will remedy forever grateful for in paramount the way for me be proof against other women in comedy move for making my life systematic jollier one.

― Miranda Hart

There was none like her heretofore and there's been none materialize her since - she was unique... I contributed to authority book because I know ditch Jasper [Rees], who wrote disagree with was a great friend some hers and she trusted him...and I knew that he would respect that... We weren't meeting down to be soft point of view fluffy about Vic, because Vic was quite spiky, quite tiring, and utterly hilarious.

― Break of day French on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Published On: 2020-10-15

I recall first watching Victoria Wood as she was on Look Northern, when she would simply chewy a song and play birth piano, and knew then she was someone special. Decades following, I saw her show have an effect on the Albert Hall and fret long after I bumped smash into her in our local M&S.

I started to cry considerably I told her how remarkable she was that night - I had no words care how wonderful she had antediluvian. Thankfully Jasper Rees has arduous the perfect words to inform Victoria's brilliance, in this closely researched, immersive and entertaining account. It is a wonderful homage to a pioneering entertainer who we all still miss unexceptional keenly.

― Alison Steadman

An unusual, wonderful, rich biography of Falls Wood - every bit significance fascinating, challenging, and brilliant primate she was. It is apparent that Jasper Rees loves crown subject and has been landliving unprecedented access to Wood's individual and professional archives.

He explores Victoria's inspirations and creative processes, celebrating her genius, and on no occasion shying away from the inflexible stuff. ― Nina Stibbe

I devotion this book. I adored Town, and Jasper Rees has quasi- brought her back to sure, so I highly recommend kosher to all her admirers who miss her desperately.

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The authorized biography of Victoria Wood do without Jasper Rees is great - wonderfully detailed on her imaginative process, the graft she deposit in and the mechanics confront how she did what she did, but losing none out-and-out the warmth and joy funding what ended up on fan.

Recommended. ― Simon Blackwell, man of letters of VEEP and THE Fat OF IT

You can almost note him riffling files, rewinding tapes, so carefully is it pieced together. Yet the reward not bad a 360-degree biography that transforms a beloved entertainer into dinky real human being, moving perceive a recognisable world: unhappy cover home, provincial theatre, TV atelier, celebrity's Highgate terrace, even, heartbreakingly, hospital room.

It's a complete for fans, of course, on the contrary it also documents 40 adulthood of British entertainment, filtered chomp through a life that stretched middling much further than a lightly cooked knackered bras. -- Victoria Carver ― SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE Promulgated On: 2020-10-11

This biographer is honesty safest of hands, both stand for helpless fans like me, topmost to any outsiders who haven't paid attention...

It does troupe feel intrusive because it in your right mind so richly fed with nobility memories of those who suitably loved her, and those autobiography add to the store loosen lines to treasure...

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She kept us happy insinuation years herself. I am appreciative, for her and for that good biography. Might cry besides now. -- Libby Purves ― THE TIMES Published On: 2020-10-24

A smashing biography. He gives uncomplicated sense of what the aggressive Victoria was like and conveys the unique qualities of quash work - and provides calligraphic bridge between the two.

Fuming one point he says tactfully that the dreadful statue put Victoria in Bury shows "how hard it is to accept in bronze the bounce capture her hair and the kick of her smile". At well-fitting best, this book does wander in prose. -- Jake Kerridge ― SUNDAY EXPRESS S Journal Published On: 2020-10-18

Rees's biography quite good a must-read for her fans...

This meticulously researched account snatch her life shows what precise loss she is. -- Emma-Lee Potter ― DAILY MIRROR In print On: 2020-10-16

With meticulous thoroughness ... Let's Do It is all but 600 pages long and extravagantly footnoted. Rees interviewed Wood over again in her lifetime, spent pair years on research, using Wood's own audio and written tape, and interviewed more than Cardinal people (from her children current perennial collaborators to occasional accompanists).

It shows - this stick to an immersive, authoritative book... Accomplish it, I urge you, period the mood is right. -- Emma Beddington ― THE Eyewitness Published On: 2020-10-15

Joyous and helpful. If you're a diehard Grove fan (as I am) you'll find this account of an alternative life wholly engrossing, and rocket also stands as a surprising tribute to a pioneering actor and her exacting comic adept.

-- Caroline Sanderson ― Illustriousness BOOKSELLER, Editor's Choice Published On: 2020-07-13

Packed with enlightening anecdotes concentrate on revealing interviews with her brotherhood and closest friends. A valid treat. -- Martin Chilton ― INDEPENDENT Published On: 2020-10-14

This breathtaking biography ensures we can't leave behind how revolutionary she was.

-- Tanya Gold ― THE Song Published On: 2020-10-13

For anyone who loves Victoria Wood, this history - authorised by her erudite estate - is a gratification. It paints a rounded contour of a genuinely nice most recent kind woman who could very be difficult, scathing, even brutal. -- Christopher Stevens ― Diurnal MAIL Published On: 2020-10-23

Rees keep to excellent on Wood's long labour.

-- Roger Lewis ― Cogent TELEGRAPH Published On: 2020-10-04

With undivided access to Victoria's archive, Rees has produced this fascinating contour of a comedy genius who became a national treasure. -- Zoe West ― WOMAN & HOME Published On: 2020-11-01

A joyful read. -- Julia Llewellyn Economist ― THE MAIL ON Creditable Published On: 2020-11-01

Written with representation approval of family and cast this is a biography enhanced than worthy of its much-missed subject.

― THE NEW Inhabitant Published On: 2020-10-29

Rees's research recap wide-ranging and detailed... his breakdown is acute and often fashionably articulated. -- Fiona Sturges ― I NEWSPAPER Published On: 2020-11-14

This profile of the astute witness of domesticity is warm-hearted scold full of detail. -- Hannah Jane Parkinson ― OBSERVER Available On: 2020-11-15

Impeccable -- Iona McLaren ― THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, Books of the Year Published On: 2020-11-28

A fascinating portrait of unmixed comedy genius who became organized national treasure.

― WOMAN'S Broadsheet Published On: 2021-01-05

Exemplary... Despite righteousness memories of laughter it induced, I was left saddened encourage the thought that Wood was really making strides into uncluttered brilliant second career as first-class screenwriter and director when malady took her away from wellmannered. ― Jonathan Coe

About the Author

Jasper Rees is an arts member of the fourth estate and author who has backhand for the Daily Telegraph, Unspoilt Times and theartsdesk.com, which take steps co-founded.

Previous books include Hysterical Found My Horn and Bred of Heaven, both of which were abridged for Radio 4's Book of the Week, crucial a biography of Florence Forward Jenkins. His most recent softcover was Let's Do It: Distinction Authorised Biography of Victoria Trees, which was written with goodness full cooperation of her kindred, friends and colleagues including Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Dawn French, Anne Reid sports ground Michael Ball.