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Curious: True Stories and Everyday Absurdities
Rebecca Front
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Description for Curious: True Stories and Everyday Absurdities
Paperback. Autobiographical stories from Rebecca Front, the award-winning actor of such shows as THE THICK OF IT and NIGHTY NIGHT. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: APB; APT; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244.
'Warm, anxious and true - a Little Book of Un-Calm' Caitlin Moran Shortlisted for Non-fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards Read on BBC Radio 4 Sometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than you can possibly imagine. By turns poignant, comic and uplifting, Curious is a book of stories from Rebecca Front's life, all of them true, though sometimes perhaps a little bent out of shape in the telling. It is a beguiling celebration of the curiosities of everyday life, and of what it is to be curious - in every sense of the word.
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780226118
SKU
V9781780226118
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Rebecca Front
Rebecca Front is a BAFTA-winning actress and the author of Curious and Impossible Things Before Breakfast. She is best known for her work on television, both in comedies such as The Thick of It, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, Nighty Night and The Day Today, and in such dramas as Lewis, War and Peace, Poldark and Queers. With her brother Jeremy she stars in BBC Radio 4's Incredible Women, and she is a frequent panellist on The News Quiz. Her columns have appeared in the Guardian, Sunday Times and many other publications. Born and raised in East London, she read English at Oxford and was the first female president of the Oxford Revue.
Reviews for Curious: True Stories and Everyday Absurdities
A total delight
Lissa Evans, author of OLD BAGGAGE It's a charming book, it's a very enjoyable read ... it does what the best memoirs and autobiographies do ... I felt very much as if this was a person I'd like to spend time with
Sarah Churchwell
A GOOD READ, BBC Radio 4
I thoroughly enjoyed it ... I love the fact that it's based on more or less real life incidences, just very normal situations, and each chapter has its own little life lesson that we can just pause and think about ... you can imagine all of these chapters being little sketches
Evelyn Glennie
A GOOD READ, BBC Radio 4
It's very, very funny, it's got some wonderful one-liners ... it's also a plea for us to accept and respect the differences that we all have
Harriett Gilbert
A GOOD READ, BBC Radio 4
Superbly amusing cabinet of curiosities - a mixture of autobiography and baffled rant
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Lively and marvellously eccentric ... her sharp observations amuse and delight
DAILY MAIL
The BAFTA-winning actress, Rebecca Front, best know for her roles as MP Nicola Murray in The Thick of It and DCS Jean Innocent in Lewis, has written Curious which contains random, extremely amusing autobiographical anecdotes and yarns, giving her thoughts on everything from learning to swim and unwanted visitors, to the pros and cons of fame and her take on cosmetic surgery.
WOMAN'S WAY (Ireland)
Rebecca Front proves herself to be an entertaining raconteur, mixing personal reminscences with unusual observations of everyday life.
CHOICE
A brilliant storyteller, it's the curious in the quotidian that attracts her gaze as she spins her funny and poignant tales.
Janet Christie
THE SCOTSMAN
Both original and entertaining
Viv Groskop
SUNDAY EXPRESS
As you might expect from an actress who made her name in such darkly comic TV series as The Thick of It and Nighty Night, Rebecca Front tells a very funny tale. Her debut book is a gloriously entertaining collection of personal stories and anecdotes from her childhood to the present day.
HELLO!
Rebecca...has anxieties to burn, and writes amusingly and perceptively about them.
Markus Berkmann
DAILY MAIL
Actress Rebecca Front offers not a straight autobiography but a string of quirky stories, memories and personal anxieties.
MAIL ON SUNDAY 'EVENT'
There is something of the cool aunt about Rebecca Front. As an actress, she is both mumsy and quietly subversive. She's equally at ease collaborating with Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci as she is in cosy crime such as Midsomer Murders and Lewis. The one constant is an eyebrow arched high. This winning delivery comes across in Curious, in which she mixes autobiography with baffled rant. And like her screen persona, her writing is funny and touching.
Christian House
DAILY TELEGRAPH
A charming collection of her life experiences - a great beach read.
SAINSBURY MAGAZINE
Rebecca Front's playful observations about the remarkable and curious moments in everyday life meant that I read her book with a frequent smile on my face. There's an Alice-in-Wonderland charm to the writing, and the stories range from the uninvited guest who sets up home in the family living room to a witty analysis of celebrity heirarchy. It's the kind of book where certain insights and experiences stick with you - you want to tuck them safely away so you can draw on them when you need them.
Gemma Jenkins
PSYCHOLOGIES MAGAZINE
Rebecca Front is an award-winning actress from TV political satire The Thick of It and also, it turns, out a brilliant storyteller. She's written for The Guardian and The Independent for years and Curious is her first book. Sharp, funny and often poignant, it is a collection of witty stories and sketches from her own life.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
Lissa Evans, author of OLD BAGGAGE It's a charming book, it's a very enjoyable read ... it does what the best memoirs and autobiographies do ... I felt very much as if this was a person I'd like to spend time with
Sarah Churchwell
A GOOD READ, BBC Radio 4
I thoroughly enjoyed it ... I love the fact that it's based on more or less real life incidences, just very normal situations, and each chapter has its own little life lesson that we can just pause and think about ... you can imagine all of these chapters being little sketches
Evelyn Glennie
A GOOD READ, BBC Radio 4
It's very, very funny, it's got some wonderful one-liners ... it's also a plea for us to accept and respect the differences that we all have
Harriett Gilbert
A GOOD READ, BBC Radio 4
Superbly amusing cabinet of curiosities - a mixture of autobiography and baffled rant
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Lively and marvellously eccentric ... her sharp observations amuse and delight
DAILY MAIL
The BAFTA-winning actress, Rebecca Front, best know for her roles as MP Nicola Murray in The Thick of It and DCS Jean Innocent in Lewis, has written Curious which contains random, extremely amusing autobiographical anecdotes and yarns, giving her thoughts on everything from learning to swim and unwanted visitors, to the pros and cons of fame and her take on cosmetic surgery.
WOMAN'S WAY (Ireland)
Rebecca Front proves herself to be an entertaining raconteur, mixing personal reminscences with unusual observations of everyday life.
CHOICE
A brilliant storyteller, it's the curious in the quotidian that attracts her gaze as she spins her funny and poignant tales.
Janet Christie
THE SCOTSMAN
Both original and entertaining
Viv Groskop
SUNDAY EXPRESS
As you might expect from an actress who made her name in such darkly comic TV series as The Thick of It and Nighty Night, Rebecca Front tells a very funny tale. Her debut book is a gloriously entertaining collection of personal stories and anecdotes from her childhood to the present day.
HELLO!
Rebecca...has anxieties to burn, and writes amusingly and perceptively about them.
Markus Berkmann
DAILY MAIL
Actress Rebecca Front offers not a straight autobiography but a string of quirky stories, memories and personal anxieties.
MAIL ON SUNDAY 'EVENT'
There is something of the cool aunt about Rebecca Front. As an actress, she is both mumsy and quietly subversive. She's equally at ease collaborating with Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci as she is in cosy crime such as Midsomer Murders and Lewis. The one constant is an eyebrow arched high. This winning delivery comes across in Curious, in which she mixes autobiography with baffled rant. And like her screen persona, her writing is funny and touching.
Christian House
DAILY TELEGRAPH
A charming collection of her life experiences - a great beach read.
SAINSBURY MAGAZINE
Rebecca Front's playful observations about the remarkable and curious moments in everyday life meant that I read her book with a frequent smile on my face. There's an Alice-in-Wonderland charm to the writing, and the stories range from the uninvited guest who sets up home in the family living room to a witty analysis of celebrity heirarchy. It's the kind of book where certain insights and experiences stick with you - you want to tuck them safely away so you can draw on them when you need them.
Gemma Jenkins
PSYCHOLOGIES MAGAZINE
Rebecca Front is an award-winning actress from TV political satire The Thick of It and also, it turns, out a brilliant storyteller. She's written for The Guardian and The Independent for years and Curious is her first book. Sharp, funny and often poignant, it is a collection of witty stories and sketches from her own life.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING