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Camberwell Beauty: ´Viciously funny´ Daily Mail
Jenny Eclair
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Description for Camberwell Beauty: ´Viciously funny´ Daily Mail
Paperback. * Bittersweet mellow comedy of observation from 'the wildest and wickedest comedian in Britain' (Daily Mirror) Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 284.
'Viciously funny' Daily Mail
Welcome to one of the nicest streets in one of London's vilest boroughs: a determined middle-class oasis of skips and bay trees, where Volvos sniff each others' bumpers and men called Giles live with women called Samantha.
This is a satellite-dish-free zone of tall houses, standing shoulder to shoulder with big front doors, five floors apiece. Come inside, shut the door and smell the coffee: you could almost be in Kensington. This is where the actors, writers and media types live, where small children wearing smart uniforms and shoes in the shape of lightbulbs ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780751530995
SKU
V9780751530995
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Jenny Eclair
Stand-up comedian Jenny Eclair was the first woman to win the Perrier Award - the UK's top comedy award - in 1995. Since then, Jenny has taken multiple shows on tour around the country, most recently Sixty! (FFS) which was extended twice due to its popularity. Jenny is well known for her starring role on BBC1's Grumpy Old Women which ... Read more
Reviews for Camberwell Beauty: ´Viciously funny´ Daily Mail
This comedienne has always been a novelist-in-waiting . . . Eclair's modern cautionary tale has the same bittersweet wit that shapes her stand-up set, but there's nothing remotely funny about its dark conclusion
Guardian
Irreverant observations are thrown down gauntlet-like as [Eclair] rages on to the next gag
The Times
Viciously funny and very well written ... Read more
Guardian
Irreverant observations are thrown down gauntlet-like as [Eclair] rages on to the next gag
The Times
Viciously funny and very well written ... Read more