Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook model of Spectacles, the hilarious, creative and incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins.

When I began writing this publication, I went home to see if my mum had kept a few of my stuff. What I came across was that she hadn’t held some of it. She had kept everything – every bus ticket, postcard, school statement – as soon as I was created to as soon as I finally had the confidence to carefully turn round and state ‘Why about Spectacles is normally our house full of this shit?’

Sadly, a recycling ‘incident’ destroyed the majority of this archive. This has meant a couple of things: first of all, Dear Reader, you won’t ever get to discover countless drawings of wizards, examine a poem about corn around the cob, or marvel at the kilos of dark brown flowers I so lovingly pressed as a child. Secondly, it’s remaining me with no choice but to actually write this factor myself.

This, my first ever book, will answer queries such as ‘Is Mary Berry real?’, ‘Is it accurate you put on a surgical truss?’ and ‘Is definitely a non-spherically symmetric gravitational draw from beyond your observable universe in charge of a number of the observed motion of huge objects such as for example galactic clusters in the world?’

Most of this publication is true. I have, obviously, amplified my even more positive characteristics in an effort to make you like me.

Thank you for reading.

Compliment for Spectacles

‘Dilemma, tears and laughs – Spectacles has got it all. An excellent, coming in contact with memoir suffused with like, it reminds you that existence is best resided at wonky angles. I ADORED it’ Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist

‘Very funny . It appears a couple of two Sue Perkins: the TV one, who gabbles and pratfalls, and the sensitive person who pains. The to begin course, exists to protect the second. They can both create. The first writes comedy, the second tragedy; with this feeling, reading her memoir is quite like meeting her’

Sunday Times

‘It’s an effective book . . . so well written. Tight & shiny & full of inspiration’

Chris Evans, Radio 2