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'A glorious compilation, with enough material for 100 biographies' -- Sue Baker, Publishing News 20050715 'I gleaned as much fun from the wit and style of the writing as I did from the lives of the subjects' -- The Spectator 20050917 'The collection salutes the spirit of these heroines, trailblazers, adventuresses and battleaxes, and captures their inspiring stories' -- Daily Telegraph (Telegraph books direct advert) 20050903 'If obituaries are the first draft of biography, there are many absorbing lives here ! neat and spicy' -- Joan Bakewell, New Statesman 20050926 'Two outstanding talents... Celebrates 93 astounding 20th-century lives' -- Country Life 20050922 'The joy of this book is in finding out how strange our fellow creatures can be, how admirable, how foolish, how inspiring' -- The Herald 20050924 'A collection of...extraordinary lives. Would that we could all be so memorable once dead' -- Beryl Bainbridge, Mail on Sunday 20051211 'Fascinating' -- The Week 20051008 'This book celebrates both doughty lives and less bland times' -- Jeremy Jehu, Daily Telegraph 20051008 'Chin Up, Girls! provide[s] fond memories of the departed, while at the same time emphasising what joy an eventful life can be' -- Birmingham Sunday Mercury 20051008 'Wonderful bedside reading' --Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, Independent on Sunday 20051008 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'A glorious compilation, with enough material for 100 biographies' (Sue Baker, Publishing News 20051008)
‘Chin Up, Girls! provide[s] fond memories of the departed, while at the same time emphasising what joy an eventful life can be’
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'A glorious compilation, with enough material for 100 biographies' -- Sue Baker, Publishing News 20050715 'I gleaned as much fun from the wit and style of the writing as I did from the lives of the subjects' -- The Spectator 20050917 'The collection salutes the spirit of these heroines, trailblazers, adventuresses and battleaxes, and captures their inspiring stories' -- Daily Telegraph (Telegraph books direct advert) 20050903 'If obituaries are the first draft of biography, there are many absorbing lives here ! neat and spicy' -- Joan Bakewell, New Statesman 20050926 'Two outstanding talents... Celebrates 93 astounding 20th-century lives' -- Country Life 20050922 'The joy of this book is in finding out how strange our fellow creatures can be, how admirable, how foolish, how inspiring' -- The Herald 20050924 'A collection of...extraordinary lives. Would that we could all be so memorable once dead' -- Beryl Bainbridge, Mail on Sunday 20051211 'Fascinating' -- The Week 20051008 'This book celebrates both doughty lives and less bland times' -- Jeremy Jehu, Daily Telegraph 20051008 'Chin Up, Girls! provide[s] fond memories of the departed, while at the same time emphasising what joy an eventful life can be' -- Birmingham Sunday Mercury 20051008 'Wonderful bedside reading' --Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, Independent on Sunday 20051008 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'A glorious compilation, with enough material for 100 biographies' (Sue Baker, Publishing News 20051008)
‘I gleaned as much fun from the wit and style of the writing as I did from the lives of the subjects’
(The Spectator 20051008)‘The collection salutes the spirit of these heroines, trailblazers, adventuresses and battleaxes, and captures their inspiring stories’
(Daily Telegraph (Telegraph books direct advert) )‘If obituaries are the first draft of biography, there are many absorbing lives here … neat and spicy’
(Joan Bakewell, New Statesman )'Two outstanding talents... Celebrates 93 astounding 20th-century lives'
(Country Life )'The joy of this book is in finding out how strange our fellow creatures can be, how admirable, how foolish, how inspiring’
(The Herald )'A collection of...extraordinary lives. Would that we could all be so memorable once dead'
(Beryl Bainbridge, Mail on Sunday )'Fascinating'
(The Week )‘ This book celebrates both doughty lives and less bland times’
(Jeremy Jehu, Daily Telegraph )‘Chin Up, Girls! provide[s] fond memories of the departed, while at the same time emphasising what joy an eventful life can be’
(Birmingham Sunday Mercury )
‘Wonderful bedside reading’
(Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, Independent on Sunday )
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