Rifling Through My Drawers

With her inimitable wit and outspoken views, Clarissa Dickson Wright opens her diary and takes us on a journey around Britain with this unrivalled collection of stories and anecdotes from her ever-eventful life. As celebrated cook and champion of the countryside, Clarissa's year includes being propositioned by a burly greyhound courser, meeting the Chairman of the Sandringham branch of the WI, a fishing terrier called Kipper and taking on the Health & Safety officials at a rain-drenched County Show. Criss-crossing the country she introduces us to long-forgotten traditions and colourful local festivals as she meets up with extraordinary characters and friends old and new. Entertaining, poignant, but never politically correct, Rifling Through My Drawers is a breath of fresh air and proves once again why Clarissa is one of the nation's true treasures.

ISBN 0340977450   Pages 304 ISBN13 9780340977453 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 570 Publisher Hodder & Stoughton General Division   Published in London Imprint Hodder & Stoughton Ltd   Height (mm) 242 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 158 Publication date 17 Sep 2009   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY 641.5092   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

'delightfully outrageous' -- Scotsman 'A wealth of hilarious anecdotes and observations' -- Unite Magazine 'informative, entertaining and forthright' -- Manchester Evening News 'The lady speaks her mind, whether it be on how literary festivals exploit authors or the idiocy of the Iraq war. The book is thus guaranteed to annoy everybody. And yet she gets away with it. The reasons are her honesty, courage and also the respect accorded to the Great British Eccentric, especially when posh. She will probably end up classified by the National Trust.' -- The Sunday Age

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