Rifling Through My Drawers

Name: Rifling Through My Drawers
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Clarissa Dickson Wright
ISBN: 9781848940031

Author: Clarissa Dickson Wright

Narrator: Clarissa Dickson Wright

Abridged: 2 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 09/17/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Synopsis

With her inimitable wit, treasury of tales and outspoken views, Clarissa Dickson Wright opens her diary and takes us on a journey around Britain and her life.

As celebrated cook and champion of the countryside, Clarissa recalls episodes from her life and describes her encounters with everyone from local farmers to Women's Institutes, supermarket managers to greyhound coursers. A lover of local traditions, she has attended events from the Whitstable Oyster Festival to the Hungerford Hochtide.

In a world of political correctness, Open Season is a breath of fresh air and proves once again why Clarissa is one of the nation's true treasures.

(P)2009 Hodder & Stoughton

About Clarissa Dickson Wright

Clarissa Dickson Wright found fame alongside Jennifer Paterson as one half of the much-loved TV cooking partnership Two Fat Ladies. She is the author of the bestselling memoir Spilling the Beans as well as many cookery books including The Game Cookbook and, most recently, Potty - her one-pot cookbook. She is also a passionate supporter of the Countryside Alliance and of rural life. She lives a little in London but mostly in Scotland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on September 01, 2016

This is a book that entertains and educates. Clarissa lets us follow her through the year 2008. I enjoy the chatty, thoughts straight off the top of her head with no filter, way that Clarissa wrote. Being a life-long city dweller I learnt lots about the countryside. I also learnt that Pid is the Cel......more

Goodreads review by Bev on August 05, 2016

I enjoy Clarissa's writing very much, enough to skip over and/or ignore the places where she has a rant I don't agree with.......more

Goodreads review by Diana on August 08, 2023

Very entertaining and readable. Dickson-Wright has moved in lofty circles, circled the drain and come out the other side. A Barrister, alcoholic, cook, author and campaigner for the countryside and outdoor sports; she has triumphed over personal adversity. I shall have to find and read her earlier bo......more

Goodreads review by Janet on September 25, 2023

I read a chapter a night. My attention span is going. I'm old. :) Very entertaining and informative. When she got lost in that no go city it scared me. Our country isn't our own any longer I'm afraid.......more

Goodreads review by The Reader on August 04, 2019

Disagree with some of Clarissa's opinions, but what a storyteller! Thoroughly entertaining.......more

Quotes

Praise for SPILLING THE BEANS: ...

She packs her story with marvellous anecdotes Sunday Times

This is a searing book, but also one with rays of good humour Country Life

Extraordinary and occasionally heartbreaking story Belfast Telegraph

Fascinating' 'An often funny, shocking and very honest read Active Life

Packed with hilarious anecdotes, fizzing with energy, throbbing with pain, this has to be the autobiography of the year Daily Mail