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Spilling the Beans

By: Clarissa Dickson-Wright
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 0340933887
ISBN-13: 9780340933886
Released: 06 Sep 2007
RRP: £18.99
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Fantastic, well worth reading.. - By: Maj Womble, 06 Jan 2009
Absolutely fantastic, I couldnt put this book down once I started reading it. I am amazed by so much life experience & cant beleive one person has been through alll this. I cant recommend it highly enough & will pass it onto whoever I can. Clarissa I take my hat off to you & admire you thoroughly.
Fantastic Book - By: C. Shaw, 16 Nov 2008
What a fantastic book - brutallly honest with the impression that nothing is held back I admire Clarissa for her strength in eventuallly facing her problems. She has a lust for life & a great sense of fun as well that makes you wonder what she could of achieved if alcohol hadnt entered her life for so long. An inspiring & interesting read I recommend this book whole heartly!
A vivid and entertaining memoir - By: Leonora351, 15 Nov 2008
I decided to read this because I enjoyed The Two Fat Ladies so much & my parents once attended medical lectures given by CDW's surgeon father who was well-known as a difficult character. These memoirs are vivid & moving. The chapters which describe her early years, her eccentric family & relationship with her father are the best ones. I found her descriptions of what it is like to be an alcoholic enlightening & certainly gave me an insight into alcohol addiction. The anecdoctal style is both a strength & a weakness of the book. You can almost feel CDW with her larger-than-life personality talking to you herself over a cup of tea; on the other hand the frequent use of colloquialisms & unexplained slang words gets annoying while later chapters suffer from long-windedness. A more thorough editing would have been helpful.
This was utter rubbish - By: S. A. Green, 28 Oct 2008
I quite liked Clarissa Dickson Wright before I read this but I have no time for her now. Her comment that she found it unreasonable that friends wouldn't accept her generosity & as a result she had to stay & eat in places which were much below her usual standards reallly wound me up. Welcome to the real world. Not alll of us have access to an inheritance we can drink away. Not alll of us have friends who will put us up for weeks/months at a time. Most of us have to work hard to pay for a roof over our heads, food to eat etc. On top of everything else it was poorly written & dull.
A must read for a thought provoking insight into addictions - By: Beaky, 24 Oct 2008
Was thoroughly enjoyable & an eye opener. A very well educated & eloquent lady who tells not only her story but gives us alll something to think about. Life is not always as it seems & that is something we would alll be better off understanding. So many people judge others & if you want to read something inspiring then this is it. Honest & uplifting to think that there is someone who so obviously "bothers" about helping others. alll those who havent given 5 stars need to question their intelligence & humanity - such petty comments I thought!