A classic in the making: an addictive, exceptional memoir of a woman's life and a long and turbulent marriage, that breaks your heart but also makes you howl with laughter. Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By sixteen, she was married, by seventeen she had a child, and by eighteen she’d sent her son to live with an aunt. By her early twenties, she’d acquired another child and a second husband, and life wasn’t going to plan… Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant, impossible, charismatic and kind, he was irresistible - famous for being bisexual, for a comic strip and for his music. Sex, drugs and jazz were a heady combination for the girl from Essex. Suddenly it was the swinging sixties and she was juggling babies with one hand and popping pills with the other. When George Melly wasn’t in jazz clubs, he was fishing – and not just for fish. |
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Diana Melly has been a nightclub hostess, model, novelist, mini-cab driver, wife, mother and grandmother. She has been married to George Melly for forty-four years.
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Hear Diana talk about the book Read an interview with The Guardian 'Diana writes fluently, by turns gleeful and rueful, but this is an account in which the astounding content wins out over style . . . Her life makes a wonderful read. But you thank your lucky stars you didn’t have to live it — or be born into it.' 'This delicious book' 'Hers is an extraordinary story, |
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George Melly Mr George Melly, at your service! |
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