Quatrième de couverture
A sparkling collection of stories, reminiscences and rather good jokes, interspersed with inventive character monologues, for you to try, she hopes, at home, I Must Collect Myself is Maureen Lipman at her wittiest.
Together with twenty-one monologues, introducing some unforgettable characters including the excitable wannabe auditioning in Brittney's Got Talent, Sheila the unintentionally smutty art tutor and the bitter American army wife drowning in the English home counties, Maureen has added many wonderful new pieces about her unpredictable life alongside some of her best Guardian newspaper columns.
The stories may be new but the astute take on life remains as sharp as ever. Maureen muses on the London bombings, gets angry with road hogs, prays for lost chickens in Notre Dame, grieves for her late husband, Jack, admires Aung San Suu Kyi's steadfastness, falls for a snowy owl and ponders 'Princess Di's memorial wet patch.'
Maureen Lipman's I Must Collect Myself is as clever, funny and acute as the woman herself.
'Reading the new collection I am struck by the wit, the depth of recollection and, above all, the humanity … she makes the reader feel like a trusted friend, privy to gossip from her occasionally glamorous, but always interesting life' The Lady
Présentation de l'éditeur
Maureen Lipman has the knack of making the everyday supremely entertaining, the ordinary absurd and unexpected. This new collection of pieces sparkles with her inimitable prose and pithy opinions. Encounters in the street, at the hairdresser, in the dressing room, on her travels at home and abroad, indeed wherever she goes, are sharply observed, joyfully and - at times - ruefully recorded. Included too are a selection of brilliant monologues which capture Maureen's voice in wonderfully diverse ways.
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