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Spilling The Beans: The Autobiography Of One Of Television's Two Fat Ladies |
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As a child, Clarissa Dickson Wright was surrounded by wealth and privilege. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father a brilliant surgeon to the Royal family. But he was also a tyrannical and violent drunk who used to beat her and force her to eat rotten food. When her adored mother died suddenly, Clarissa fell into a mind-numbing decade of wild overindulgence that eventually cost her entire fortune. After a long, hard road to recovery, Clarissa finally faced her demons and turned to the one thing that had always brought her joy: cooking. Now at last she has found sobriety and peace, and her TV parternship with the beloved late Jennifer Paterson as the "Two Fat Ladies" brought her fame and success. With stark honesty and brilliant wit, this is Clarissa's own story of a life lived to extremes.
Publisher's Remarks:
The #1 bestseller in the UKaa memoir from one of televisionas "Two Fat Ladies" and athe autobiography of the year" ("Daily Mail")
Clarissa Dickson Wright, famously half of televisionas "Two Fat Ladies," was born into wealth and privilege. As a child, shooting and hunting were the norm and pigeons were flown in from Cairo for supper. But Clarissaas father, a brilliant surgeon, was an abusive drunk who forced her to eat carrots with slugs clinging to them. Determined and clever, Clarissa began acareer in law and became the youngest woman ever to be called to the bar. But disaster struck when Clarissaas adored mother died suddenly. Clarissa turned to alcohol and partied away her entire inheritance.
The road to recovery was long and hard, and Clarissa sought solace in the thing that had always brought her joyacooking. "Two Fat Ladies " became an international sensation and Clarissa found success, sobriety, and peace. Now, with the honesty and wit millions love her for, Clarissa recounts a life lived to extremes. A vivid and funny story, "Spilling the Beans" is as moving as it is a wonderful read.
Praise for "Spilling the Beans"
aPacked with hilarious anecdotes, fizzing with energy, throbbing with pain.a a"The Daily Mail"
a Clarissa] is always good company and packs her story with marvelous anecdotes . . . brave and unsparing.a a"The Times" (London)
Product Detail:
Author: Dickson Wright, Clarissa
Publisher: Overlook, 1/1/2010
Content Language: English
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Hardcover: 336 pages
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