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Pam Ayres

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Pages: 160 (Hardcover)

ISBN: 0340922788

Pub: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

Pub date: 2006-09-07

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2459

Reader Reviews:

Always Promised Myself (0/0 people found this helpful)

a Pam Ayres book, but never got off my backside to get one, then this wagged its 'come hither' finger at me in Asda last Saturday. Always enjoyed her work, she's not on TV enough, but is 'On Tour' right now, I found, if you check her website
This book is a cracker and will have you chuckling along all the way through, because Pam always writes about events we can relate to, which is her great strength.
Get a copy, then, like I'm planning to do, get some of her other books from Amazon; my idleness has now been cured, as laughter, is indeed, a wonderful thing. She dishes up exceptionally good British humour in a world where American humour seems to be trying to take over, and OK, maybe I'm one-in-a-million, but The Simpson's and all the other codswallop from the U S of A JUST DOESN'T DO ANYTHING for me; Pam Ayres does, in bucketloads!

Oh what a joy! (4/4 people found this helpful)

I'm usually into thrillers but saw Pam Ayres promoting her book on the TV and asked my husband to get it for me as one of my Christmas presents, saying that I could do with a giggle.

Well, what can I say? First thing that struck me was that whilst reading it, (to myself, not even out loud), I found that I was reading it with an endearing Pam Ayres accent! Couldn't help myself and it just made it all so much more real somehow.

Her tales of times growing up brought back lots of lovely memories of my own happy childhood. Wish I'd known about that handy trick to catch crayfish though, love those.

All the tales are just so what could happen to any of us and probably has or will at some point in our lives but she just has such a wonderful way of expressing them.

I foolishly started reading this just before bedtime and naturally couldn't put it down until it was finished. Resulting in some very strange sideways glances from my almost sleeping husband as I tried to stifle my chuckles once I'd made it up to bed with the book.

This was a real pleasure to read and some welcome light relief from my usual genre of thrillers. I've never read any Pam Ayres books before, but will certainly be reading more in future. I'm sure her older works are equally as laughable.

A Life Long Fan (2/2 people found this helpful)

I have been a life long fan of Pam Ayres. She is not only a pleasure to read and to listen to, but a mighty fine woman to look at as well. Pam has that talent of taking the simple reality of life and making it sparkle. Being able to bring a tear to the eye and then make us laugh out loud, sometimes very loud. This is because the essence of her stories and poems concern topics that are familiar to us all and because we recognise familiar issues it makes her delivery all the more potent.

But as well as her literary talent she has a rare sort of star presence that no one else has. Her endearing little crooked smile as she gives her girlish little giggles are absolutely charming and that combined with her aura of innocence makes her personality irresistible.

I can also recommend her video PAN AYRES LIVE IN CONCERT. It has the old favourites including `Oh I wished I'd looked after me teeth'. A timeless classic and no performance should be without it. Filmed at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, it is one well worth looking out for.

She is an inspiration to me, and being a comedy writer myself, I have published a little book entitled THE POST BOX AT THE CROSSROADS, not of poetry I might add, but humorous letters of a serial job seeker. (I do hope you don't mind me putting that in Pam) So I have huge admiration of Pam's work and talent and I wish her every success with the book.

Our National Treasure! (15/17 people found this helpful)

Isn't Pam Ayres wonderful! What a National Treasure!! These bite-sized reads, whether poem or prose, ring with her Oxfordshire accent and the twinkle in her eye. As a fine reflection of the quirks of middle-aged life, I hope my wife will forgive me for giving her this title for Christmas.

Brilliant (20/21 people found this helpful)

A brilliant read poetry to make you laugh, her style is always quirky I wish I could write as she. I would recommend to any one who needs a little light entertainment. I can still see her renditions from years ago and always believed she was the female version of Benny Hill with her facial expressions as she recited her works.

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