Author: LUARD, ELISABETH
Title: My Life As a Wife - Love, Liquor and What to Do About the Other Women
Description: London, Timewell Press. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781857252279). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Luard, Elisabeth. A Fine unmarked copy with a near Fine dustjacket which has a little light creasing to top edge and is not price clipped. A fascinating, witty and often brave memoir charts 40 years of marriage to Nicholas Lamert Luard (1937-2004), a man who was as cavalier and unreliable as he was charismatic and charming, a philanderer, wheeler dealer and travel writer and novelist with early connections with Peter Cook and satire (they founded Private Eye magazine). Elisabeth Luard, herself an award winning writer and illustrator, traces the years spent together in London, Spain, France, the Hebrides and Wales with their four children, one of whom died tragically of AIDS. 51 photographs and chapter illustrations by Elisabeth. 3. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Nicholas Lamert Luard, Private Eye Magazine, Peter Cook, Food Writers, Book Illustrators 9781857252279 Luard, Elisabeth


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