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Victoria Wood: stiletto in an oven glove

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

Let’s Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood Jasper Rees

Trapeze, pp.576, 20

Even if you didn’t have an Auntie Dot in Cockermouth (the one who ate a raffia drinks coaster, mistaking it for a high-fibre biscuit), it was impossible not to feel Victoria Wood got you, somehow. Her death in 2016 triggered an outpouring of grief commensurate to her talent, but it also revealed how intimately, how individually, she was loved.

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