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Spilling the Beans (Paperback)
| Author: Clarissa Dickson Wright |
| Format: | Paperback |
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| As a child, Clarissa Dickson Wright was surrounded by wealth and privilege. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father a brilliant surgeon to the Royal family. But he was also a tyrannical and violent drunk who used to beat her and force her to eat rotten food. When her adored mother died suddenly, Clarissa fell into a mind-numbing decade of wild overindulgence that eventually cost her entire fortune. After a long, hard road to recovery, Clarissa finally faced her demons and turned to the one thing that had always brought her joy: cooking. Now at last she has found sobriety and peace, and her TV parternship with the beloved late Jennifer Paterson as the "Two Fat Ladies" brought her fame and success. With stark honesty and brilliant wit, this is Clarissa''s own story of a life lived to extremes. |
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As a child, Clarissa Dickson Wright was surrounded by wealth and privilege. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father a brilliant surgeon to the Royal family. But he was also a tyrannical and violent drunk who used to beat her and force her to eat rotten food. When her adored mother died suddenly, Clarissa fell into a mind-numbing decade of wild overindulgence that eventually cost her entire fortune. After a long, hard road to recovery, Clarissa finally faced her demons and turned to the one thing that had always brought her joy: cooking. Now at last she has found sobriety and peace, and her TV parternship with the beloved late Jennifer Paterson as the Two Fat Ladies brought her fame and success. With stark honesty and brilliant wit, this is Clarissa’s own story of a life lived to extremes. |
Clarissa Dickson Wright (her given name is actually Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright) of the popular British cooking show TWO FAT LADIES reveals the sometimes raunchy, often inspiring, always gripping details of her tumultuous life. Born into a wealthy, privileged, but dysfunctional family--her alcoholic, abusive father was a society doctor who treated the royal family--Wright became a barrister, then descended into alcoholism and homelessness after a series of losses, and finally rose to fame in the quirky world of TV cookery. In SPILLING THE BEANS, she recounts all this with humor and gusto.
