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Wendy Cope on hating school, meeting Billy Graham and enduring Freudian analysis

It all ends well though. A review of Life, Love and the Archers; Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose, by Wendy Cope

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

15 November 2014

9:00 AM

Life, Love and the Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose Wendy Cope

Two Roads, pp.300, £16.99, ISBN: 9781444795363

A surprise! I took this book from its envelope expecting a fresh collection of Wendy Cope’s poems, and opened it to find prose — a variety of memoirs, reflections, articles and letters. There are literary pieces on poets such as Anne Sexton and George Herbert, and her reviews from The Spectator when she was television critic here.

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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £14.99 Tel: 08430 600033.  Connie Bensley has published several collections of poetry including Progress Report, Moving In and Choosing To Be a Swan.

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