Victoria wood biography book

  • This biography skillfully takes you on a journey through her childhood and career including interviews of family, friends, and colleagues who knew her and her.
  • With an introduction read by Jasper Rees and two recordings of Victoria Wood's classic Ballad of Barry and Freda.
  • An unflinching, affectionate portrait of the hugely popular writer and performer with a flair for very English comedy.

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    Victoria Wood biography explores her 'painful' childhood

    Vincent Dowd

    Arts correspondent, BBC News

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    Victoria Wood's best work had a comic breadth and energy few contemporaries could match.

    When she died in , for some fans it was as though a family member had been taken from them. Now an authorised biography looks at what lay behind her extraordinary and multifaceted talent.

    Journalist Jasper Rees first interviewed Wood in It was the first of several encounters over the next decade.

    "I was doing a piece on the second series of Dinnerladies, which had become a big hit. I went back two years later but this time the conversation turned to issues with her weight and quite a lot about childhood and her parents.

    "She said that one day she'd write about her early years in showbusiness but not about her childhood: she said she wasn't ready to open that can of worms yet. I guess what she meant was her relationship with her mother Helen."

    Rosalind Watson

    Rees's biography of Wood is full of detail and insight. Only Wood herself could have revealed more about how an introverted young drama student fretting about her body image at Birmingham University became one of Britain's great comic talents.

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    Let's Do It: The Authoritative Biography rob Victoria Wood

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    Author: Jasper Rees

    Format: Paperback

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    Victoria Wood: The Authorised Biography

    September 15,
    I love Victoria Wood so this was always going to be one on my To Be Read pile! I remember seeing Victoria live at the Royal Albert Hall in (which is mentioned in this book!) and have loved her for many years both before and after this. It was absolutely heart-breaking to hear the news that she had died, and it certainly felt like a little bit of comedy had died with her. This book, written as an authorised biography, documents her life from her early years right up to when she died, using her own diaries, notes and recollections which she kept. I alternated between listening to the audio book and reading the actual book, but when I was listening to the audio version I found this highly entertaining with some of the chapters read by her dear friends, who we all know and love!

    I learnt so much about her as I read. I never knew she spent so much time in Birmingham, just down the road from me. It was great to hear of how she met Julie Walters, penned her first song, got a job on ‘That’s Life’, wrote and starred in Dinner Ladies and received various awards and accolades, amongst many other things which this book shares with the readers. Victoria always came across as quite a private person, but this book lifted the lid on some
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