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When Jess Green joined the Labour Party at university she doubled
the number of members who met weekly in the Liverpool Philarmonic
pub. Since then she's stuck by them through the downfall of Tony
Blair, the disappointment of Gordon Brown and the monolith of Ed
Miliband. After a decade of keeping her membership card firmly at
the back of her wallet she's suddenly, like most frustrated lefty
activists, fallen head over heels in love with Jeremy Corbyn and is
raw Communist sex appeal.
'Mary careens across these pages with her usual wit, wisdom and
honesty' - Julie Andrews '[A] thoughtful chronicle of one woman's
journey through experience to understanding - and a lot of fun to
read' - The Washington Post 'Pure pleasure . . . jaw-droppingly
shocking' - Daniel Okrent, The New York Times The wonderfully
funny, candid and outrageous NYT bestselling memoirs of Mary
Rodgers - writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and 'a woman who
tried everything.' Mary Rodgers was the daughter of Richard
Rodgers, who, with Oscar Hammerstein, wrote some of the biggest
musicals of the 20th century-from Oklahoma! and Carousel to South
Pacific and The King and I. Shy is the story of how Mary went from
angry child, constrained by a self-absorbed mother and her father's
overwhelming gift, to finally living life on her own terms-falling
in love, often unwisely, marrying twice, having six children, and
forging a career of her own. Through her long and rich life Mary
grabbed every chance possible-and then some. Her musical Once Upon
A Mattress remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written
by a woman. She was the renowned author of the much-loved Freaky
Friday books, as well as a close friend and collaborator of Stephen
Sondheim, falling in love with him at 13 over a game of chess. She
also dated producer Hal Prince and worked alongside composer and
conductor Leonard Bernstein. With copious annotations,
contradictions, and interruptions from Mary's collaborator Jesse
Green, the chief theatre critic of The New York Times, the result
is laugh-out-loud funny and frequently moving. Above all, Shy is a
chance to sit at the feet of the kind of woman they don't make any
more. They make themselves.
The first collection by poet Jess Green is taken from her spoken
word show set in an inner city secondary school suffering the cuts
and blows of the Coalition government. Burning Books champions the
underdogs; the unnoticed and unheard stories bearing the gritty
reality of the UK's education system.
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