Selective Memory Katharine Whitehorn

Name: Selective Memory By Katharine Whitehorn
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Selective Memory by Katharine Whitehorn

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Summary

* Now out in paperback, the successful autobiography from the famous and well-loved columnist and author of COOKING IN A BEDSITTER comes her autobiography. Witty and brilliant, these are frank and funny tales

Selective Memory Summary

Selective Memory: An Autobiography by Katharine Whitehorn

On her husband's choice of neckwear:

Did you buy that tie?'
'Of course I did - how do you think I got it?'
'I assumed it had been given away free with something.'

Katharine Whitehorn pioneered the first of the personal columns. She told us how it really was. She was funny - and smart. The Observer's star columnist for 40 years, she is also famous for COOKING IN A BEDSITTER. Much loved for her frankness and honesty, her autobiography is about family, studying at Roedean, work on Fleet Street and about her long marriage to the recently deceased crime writer Gavin Lyall. 'Marriage is the water in which you swim, the land you live in . . . once a widow you have to learn to live in another country in which you are an unwelcome refugee.

Selective Memory Reviews

There is a fair amount of cheerful cynicism here, but also a touching memoir of times and people past * TIMES *
Humorous and bittersweet * OBSERVER *
Katharine Whitehorn's long-awaited and beautifully achieved autobiography, the best present you could give, a book to treasure for its wit, honesty, good sense and warm laughter . . . What she writes is timelessly intelligent, agelessly elegant * TELEGRAPH *
Dry, aphoristic, keenly intelligent * TIMES *

About Katharine Whitehorn

Katharine Whitehorn grew up in Mill Hill and studied at Cambridge. She has had distinguished career on Fleet Street; working for the Observer from 1960 to 1996 with stints at Picture Post and the Spectator among others. She is currently Saga magazine's resident agony aunt.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001018319

ISBN 13

9781844082391

ISBN 10

1844082393

Title

Selective Memory: An Autobiography by Katharine Whitehorn

Author

Katharine Whitehorn

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

Year published

2008-08-07

Number of pages

288

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us