# Life, Love and The Archers

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- Book: [Life, Love and The Archers](https://www.bookquiver.com/wendy-cope/life-love-and-the-archers) ([Life, Love and The Archers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/wendy-cope/life-love-and-the-archers.md))
- Authors: [Wendy Cope](https://www.bookquiver.com/wendy-cope)
- Publisher: john_murray
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7360-986-0
- Published: 2014-11-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

'IS IT ANY WONDER THAT SO MANY OF US LOVE HER?' Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted to the serious, taken from a lifetime of published and unpublished work, and all with Cope's lightness of touch. Here readers can meet the Enid-Blyton-obsessed schoolgirl, the ambivalent daughter, the amused teacher, the sensitive journalist, the cynical romantic and the sardonic television critic, as well as touching on books and writers who have informed a lifetime of reading and writing. Wendy Cope is a master of the one-liner as well as the couplet, the telling review as well as the sonnet, and Life, Love and the Archers gives us a wonderfully entertaining and unforgettable portrait of one of England's favourite writers. A book for anyone who's ever fallen in love, tried to give up smoking, or consoled themselves that they'll never be quite as old as Mick Jagger. (P)2014 John Murray Press