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Spilling the Beans | 
 enlarge | Author: Clarissa Dickson Wright
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 104289
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Number Of Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0340933887
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5092
EAN: 9780340933886
ASIN: 0340933887
Publication Date: September 1, 2007
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Clarissa was born into wealth and privilege, as a child, shooting and hunting were the norm and pigeons were flown in from Cairo for supper. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father was 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 carrots with slugs still clinging to them. Clarissa was determined and clever, though, and her ambition led her to a career in the law. At the age of 21, she was the youngest ever woman to be called to the Bar. Then disaster struck when her adored mother died suddenly. It was to lead to a mind-numbing decade of wild over-indulgence. Rich from her inheritance, in the end Clarissa had partied away her entire fortune. It was a long, hard road to recovery along which Clarissa finally faced her demons and turned to the one thing that had always brought her joy - cooking. Now at last she has found success, sobriety - and peace. With the stark honesty and the brilliant wit we love her for, Clarissa recounts the tale of a life lived to extremes. A vivid and funny story, it is as moving as it is a cracking good read.
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 An Inspirational Read and For fans of Two Fat Ladies November 24, 2008
Suzanne (United States)
If you were a fan of 'Two Fat Ladies', are an Anglo-phile, or need an inspirational and funny read, this is your book. I spent the weekend devouring this memoir and enjoying every page. Clarissa writes with honesty and candor about her early life with an alcoholic and violent parent, her brilliant legal career, a devastating love life and loss, her despair and descent into alcoholism and her slow but steady rise to fame afterwards.
Though she may have been born with every advantage, she lost it all, money, friends, home, career, and ultimately through courage and hard work became a self-made woman and rose to fame in the short-lived, but much loved cooking show, "Two Fat Ladies".
A very enjoyable read.
I've always been a fan but now I have such deep respect for her. May 2, 2008
Sharon A. Bussey (Farmington Hills, MI)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've enjoyed the author as a TV cook, her humor and style as one of the Two Fat Ladies was delightful. I own many of her books and have enjoyed both the cookbooks and the country books. This book about her life was a suprise to me as I had no clue she was from an abusive home. I have such respect for her. In this age of whiny delicate little flowers (BLECCH!) I admire her strength of character and ability to be thankful for her life, accepting both good and bad with dignity and grace.
An amazing autobiography... April 27, 2008
P. Chan (Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Hilarious, frightening, shocking, exciting, and always readable, Clarissa Dickson Wright's autobiography depicts her rollercoaster of a life in a compelling but always sympathetic manner. One of the best memoirs in recent memory.
 This book 'ain't a mucher,' I'm sorry to say! March 17, 2008
Geoffrey Woollard (Cambridgeshire, England)
3 out of 18 found this review helpful
'Spilling The Beans' is an amusing title and the dust cover portrays the author ('hideous' in Roy Hattersley's reported comment, though I don't commend him, either), but the work itself ain't a mucher (as some of us country folk say). One wants to be generous to an author who has suffered a lot and, by her lights, has come through to have a 'splendidly enjoyable life,' but her account is clearly not consistent with the facts in some places, and is not well-written or edited. Clarissa Dickson Wright's fans will still love it, I suppose, but I was pleased to put it down at its end and then to get on with some decent reading.
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