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Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose

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About the book

A little gem of a memoir… The book adds up to more than a sum of its parts and lingers in the memory long after the final page. –

Sunday Telegraph

Half a million people a day do it in the

Telegraph. The

Times claims almost as many, and the

Guardian 300,000. Most people remember their first time, and everyone has a favourite. You can do it in bed, standing up, or on a train. You can do it alone, with a loved one or in groups. The Queen does it in the bath. It is not illegal, immoral or fattening. In fact it tops the Home Office list of approved entertainments for prison inmates. Crosswords are a very British obsession.

Crosswords are a very British obsession.

Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose is a personal reminiscence and a guide to solving crossword puzzles. But it is much, much more than a 'how-to' book. Each chapter is starts with a clue, and uses anecdote, history and autobiography to solve it, in the process describing something of what it means to love England. In the process, we encounter The Best Crossword Clue Ever, The Most Beautiful Clue in the World 'Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose' and the eccentric personalities behind such legendary compilers as the

Guardian's Araucaria and

The Times'Ximenes.

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Release date on Litres:
23 October 2024
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190 p.
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9781782394792
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