Spectacles Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook release of Spectacles, the hilarious, creative and intensely moving memoir from precious comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins.

ONCE I began writing this book, I went house to find out if my mum had kept a few of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn’t kept some of it. She had kept everything – every bus ticket, postcard, school record – as soon as I was born to the moment I finally got the confidence to carefully turn round and state ‘Why about Spectacles is usually our house filled with this shit?’

Sadly, a recycling ‘incident’ destroyed the majority of this archive. This has meant two things: first of all, Dear Reader, you will never get to find countless drawings of wizards, examine a poem about corn for the cob, or marvel at the kilos of brownish flowers I therefore lovingly pressed as a child. Secondly, it’s still left me without choice but to actually write this issue myself.

This, my first ever book, will answer questions such as for example ‘Is Mary Berry real?’, ‘Is it accurate you use a operative truss?’ and ‘Is normally a non-spherically symmetric gravitational draw from outside the observable universe responsible for some of the noticed motion of large objects such as for example galactic clusters in the world?’

Most of this reserve is true. I have, obviously, amplified my more positive characteristics in order to make you like me.

Many thanks for reading.

Compliment for Spectacles

‘Episode, tears and laughs – Spectacles offers it all. A brilliant, coming in contact with memoir suffused with like, it reminds you that life is best resided at wonky angles. I ADORED it’ Jessie Burton, bestselling writer of The Miniaturist

‘Very funny . It seems you will find two Sue Perkins: it one, who gabbles and pratfalls, and the sensitive person who aches. The first of course, exists to safeguard the second. They can both compose. The first writes comedy, the next tragedy; in this feeling, reading her memoir is very like meeting her’

Sunday Times

‘It’s a proper book . . . so well written. Tight & bright & full of inspiration’

Chris Evans, Radio 2