Clever Girl: Growing Up in the 1950s - Softcover

Thompson, Brian

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9781843545453: Clever Girl: Growing Up in the 1950s

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ISBN 10: 1843545454 ISBN 13: 9781843545453

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2007

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Review:

'Beautifully written, very funny.' Author: Steven Poole Source: Guardian

Brian Thompson can write... he is in a different league. Author: Tom Payne Source: Daily Telegraph

An enchantingly eccentric and entertaining book. Author: Tom Rosenthal Source: Daily Mail

Clever Girl is the panacea to all those misery memoirs choking the nation's bookstores. Author: Ludovic Hunter-Tilney Source: Financial Times

Deft and humorous... [Brian Thompson has] an Alan Bennett-like ear for the incongruous. Author: Joan Bakewell Source: Guardian

A wonderful book, by turns heartbreaking and deliriously funny. Author: Diana Melly Source: Sunday Times

A touching, comic masterpiece of a memoir. Author: Melanie McGrath Source: Sunday Telegraph

From the Author:

Brian Thompson was born in Lambeth, London in 1935. After vigorous rescue remedies applied by two grammar schools, he read English at Cambridge. Since 1973 he has written for a living as a radio and television playwright and documentary film maker. His first volume of memoir, Keeping Mum, was published by Atlantic in 2006. He is also the author of several acclaimed biographies including A Monkey Among Crocodiles and The Nightmare of a Victorian Bestseller. He lives in Oxford.

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