Life Is a Joke: A Writer's Memoir

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An optimistic, poignant and often very funny account of how creativity can banish the disagreeables that permeate life, which, as Friedman points out, is really 'a sexually transmitted disease with a 100 percent mortality rate'. The hazards and secrets of the book trade and writing for television and the theatre are revealed and co-mingle with the joys of travel, family and entertaining.

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Praise for Life is a Joke - A Writer's Memoirs: 'I like the intelligence of the book, and the precision, understanding and, most important of all, the wisdom of the comments - on the contemporary scene' Francis King Praise for the author: 'Up-to-date and entertaining' Daily Telegraph 'As affecting as it is intelligent' FT 'Confident, sensitive and marvellously satisfying' The Times 'Sheer pleasure' Literary Review

Author Bio

Rosemary Friedman is a highly successful writer whose career spans eighteen top-selling novels, non-fiction works, film and TV screenplays, and books for children. She writes with great feeling and insight about the broad range of human experience from love and relationships to work and death. Her books have achieved international recognition. She has held a number of distinguished positions, including membership of the Executive Committees of PEN and the Society of Authors. Rosemary Friedman lives and works in London.