Description
| Product ID: | 9780330544221 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Surprising Life of Constance Spry |
| Authors: | Author: Sue Shephard |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Cookery / food and drink / food writing, Flower arranging and floral crafts, Cookery / food & drink etc, Flower arranging & floral crafts |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A riveting new biography - the first for thirty years - of the influential floral artist and founder of the Cordon Bleu cookery school <p>Fascinating … to be eagerly devoured’ Clarissa Dickson-Wright<br><br> Most people today, if they have heard of her, associate Constance Spry with the cookery book bearing her name. But Connie was much, much more than the author of a bestselling cookery book. She was deeply unconventional, extremely charming and very determined; Spry’s life took her from the back streets of Victorian Derby to running a hugely successful business as the florist of choice for the highest of high society, organizing the flowers for royal weddings and indeed for the Queen's coronation. She endured a violent first marriage, had a lesbian affair with a cross-dressing artist and was a pioneer for working women at a time when few women had careers. Sue Shephard tells her extraordinary story with insight, wit and flair.<br><br> 'Riveting.’ Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall<br><br> ‘Makes you fall utterly in love with its subject’ <i>New York Times Magazine</i><br><br> ‘Reveals with the greatest skill and sympathy an extraordinary person - complicated, driven, sometimes secretive but gifted and artistic to an nth degree. What a story.' Elizabeth Buchan</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-05-06 |