SPECTACULAR SUE
CARRIE LYELL INTRODUCES AN EXTRACT FROM SUE PERKINS’ HILARIOUS AND MOVING NEW BOOK, IN WHICH SUE SUSPECTS SHE IS THE VICTIM OF A HATE CRIME...
In the age of the humblebrag, Sue Perkins is quite something. The national treasure has finely tuned her self-deprecation over the course of her career and it shows no sign of slipping. In Spectacles, her delightful memoir, she’d be forgiven for blowing her own trumpet rather spectacularly, but instead she downplays almost every success in her life, and pretty much predicts Spectacles will sit on supermarket shelves gathering dust.