6/21/2023 0 Comments Lynne truss author![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I suspect that Truss's sense of humour conceals a fairly well-defended inner melancholy. The title of her book comes from the gag about the panda which has been a staple for British comedians since the Fifties, and probably before. As a child of the mid-Fifties, she read Molesworth and AP Herbert and listened to Tony Hancock records with her parents, whose taste was more Steptoe than the Goons. She has a detached and humorous view of life and has always wanted to be a comic writer. When she was asked on American television if she intends to make a film of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, she replied, deadpan: 'Julia Roberts as an apostrophe and Schwarzenegger as an exclamation mark.' Lynne Truss, however, meets her good fortune with the wisdom of experience, with characteristic English phlegm, and with an instinctive irony. ![]() When lightning strikes in the world of books, its victims can be scorched beyond recognition. 'I do a lot of very strange calculations which a year ago I wouldn't have believed I would be doing.' Quite apart from the scale of the thing, it has all happened so fast. So now she finds herself doing sums all the time, cautiously halving the estimate of her new riches 'because all sorts of people are going to take cuts'. ![]()
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