Wendy Richard

Advantages: a good read, interesting, honest
Disadvantages: slightly expensive

...Whether you think of her as sexy Miss. Brahms in Are You Being Served? or dowdy Pauline Fowler in EastEnders, chances are you will know who Wendy Richard is. One of Britain’s most popular actresses, she has now celebrated forty years in showbiz. I have met Wendy twice – once when she was famous for AYBS and once during her EastEnders tenure. In 1980, she toured in Blithe Spirit which came to Lincoln. I remember her at the VIP reception after the first night. She was wearing jeans, smoking and my mother called her “common”! By the time I met her again in the mid- to late-eighties, she was in Skegness at another VIP event. The organisers had made her a cake with a frog on it (She loves frogs) and she seemed a different person, quite the lady. I recall her as being polite, charming and a very warm person... Read review

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Advantages: Witty romp
Disadvantages: May suffer in comparison to Simply Divine

...quibbles seemed unimportant - I noticed lots of witticisms and amusing incidents which had passed me by on my first reading. Wendy Holden is one of the best writers of a certain sort of comedy, which involves lots of rich men (some gorgeous, some less gorgeous), assorted caricatures of the upper and upper-middle classes, parties of varying degrees of embarassment, and an average-looking, middle-class and relatively normal heroine stranded in the middle of all this absurdity. This comedy, based on very funny renderings of social stereotypes, might be enjoyed by people who like the Telegraph stereotypes column or Jilly Cooper novels. If you liked Holden's other offerings you'll probably enjoy this one too -my mother actually thought it was the funniest of the three novels, possibly because she's a teacher in a primary schools and recognised... Read review

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Advantages: The true worth of a spirit. A Triumphant ending.
Disadvantages: The Horrors disadvantages and shame of Abuse

...THE BROTHER OF "A CHILD CALLED IT" SPEAKS UP AT LAST! YEEEESSS !!!!!!! This was my thoughts as I picked the biography out from the shelves of glossy romantics,jokes and all things light. I don't know why I was so drawn to yet another harrowing tale of a lost childhood..but as soon as I saw the surname "Peltzer "I knew I'd discovered someting precious yet so awful all at the same time that I had to have it. Just over a week ago,I saw this biography in the top ten best sellers on the shelves of Asda. It is a light book to handle and I wasn't expecting the rather short in comparison 18 chapter layout. After leafing through the front and back cover the afterword,and the small section about the author who is now married I bought it at once.- The author takes your eye because this is Richard Peltzer; the older brother who... Read review

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