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Driving Miss Smith: A Memoir of Linda Smith

Driving Miss Smith: A Memoir of Linda Smith


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Linda Smith (1958-2006) was a national treasure and voted 'wittiest person alive' on Radio 4. From her childhood in Erith -- featuring her 'sweet smiling fascist grandmother' and holidays abroad (to the Isle of Wight) -- to her early stand-up days and comedy career, Warren Lakin recalls Linda's story and their life together. Warren was Linda's lover, companion and chauffeur from their first meeting, driving her to her tour, radio and TV gigs, and later to hospital appointments as her cancer took hold. This is the moving and often hilarious story of a life lived with wit, humour and grace under pressure.

About the Author :
Warren Lakin was Linda s partner for 23 years, from their first meeting in Sheffield in 1983 to her death in London in 2006.

Review :
Praise for I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith: - .

'This is a ravishing book and I urge you to read it ... the world is sadder and more tender for Smith's tragic loss, and reading I Think the Nurses are Stealing my Clothes will remind you why.' - Maureen Lipman, Guardian

Linda Smith s everyday conversation contained more jokes than most comedy scripts and more social comment than most dramas. - Independent

'One of the best-loved and funniest voices on radio.' - EVENING STANDARD

'The funniest woman I have ever known.' - SIMON HOGGART

'The many tributes last week describing the late Linda Smith as one of the funniest women in Britain have got it wrong. Linda was simply one of the funniest people in Britain and her gifts were such that most of the time, listening to her thoughtful, provocative, casually brilliant one-liners, you forgot she was a woman. I mean that in the best way, the same way that when you read Margaret Atwood or Zadie Smith, you are not conscious of reading a 'lady novelist'.' - Stephanie Merritt, Observer

'One of the country's finest stand-ups' - Evening Standard

'One of the country's more precious natural resources ...Priceless' - David Graham, Manchester Evening News


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781844564651
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Publisher Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
  • Height: 141 mm
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 125 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1844564657
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2007
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 110 gr


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