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Buy this book on-line WRIGHT,CLARISSA DICKSON: : SPILLING THE BEANS. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON 2007. ISBN 9780340933886.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,12th imp.[Complete number line 12.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author/subject's handwritten black ink dedication+signature: 'To Betty Keep Faith Clarissa Dickson Wright' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt, author/subject portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with silver gilt+white lettering to front+spine; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges very lightly toned but still bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Book has a slight lean.Bright, crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,12th imp,1-328pp [paginated] includes 17 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w+ colour auto+biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp120/21 and pp200/01 respectively,an appendix; plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title page,a dedication with picture acknowledgements to it's recto,contents list/table with a blank recto.
One of the nation's best-loved cooks,Clarissa has lived her life on a grand scale.Her mother was an Australian heiress,her father a brilliant surgeon.But he was also a tyrannical and violent drunk.Clarissa was determined and clever though and her ambition led her,at the age of 21,to be the youngest woman ever called to the Bar.
Disaster struck when her adored mother died suddenly.Grief led to a mind-numbing decade of over-indulgence during which she drank and partied away her entire enormous inheritance.It was a long hard road to recovery - and in the end it was cooking that brought her success, sobriety and peace.
'SPILLING THE BEANS' is Clarissa's extraordinary,humorous and heart-breaking story of a life lived passionately and resolutely on her own terms.
Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright was an English celebrity cook,a television personality,a writer,a businesswoman,and a former barrister.She was however,best known as one of the Two Fat Ladies, with Jennifer Paterson,in the television cooking programme of the same name.Died March,2014.
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