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Two Roads has acquired Wendy Cope’s first collection of prose.
Life, Love and The Archers, which consists of published and unpublished work, will be released in November.
Two Roads acquired world rights from Carol Macarthur at United Agents.
Lisa Highton said: “With her sharp eye for human foibles and unfailing sense of humour, Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation’s best-loved poets. Now, thanks to this collection consisting of a lifetime of published and unpublished work, readers can meet the Enid-Blyton obsessed schoolgirl, the ambivalent daughter, the amused teacher, the sensitive journalist, the cynical romantic and the savagely funny television critic.
“Reflecting on everything from daring to write poetry to weddings and, of course, The Archers, this will be a book to treasure”
Cope’s first book of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (Faber & Faber), was published in 1986.
Her most recent collection is Family Values (Faber & Faber), came out in 2011.