Gary Bell QC Animal QC: My Preposterous Life (English Edition) fiche de lecture

Animal QC: My Preposterous Life (English Edition)

de Gary Bell QC

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Gary Bell QC Animal QC: My Preposterous Life (English Edition) fiche de lecture - 'An extraordinary yarn, a great autobiography… Marvel Comics should take Gary Bell on' - Libby Purves, Radio 4 Midweek

'Hugely entertaining, heartwarming and inspiring' - Mail on Sunday

'Riotous… unvarnished candour' - Daily Telegraph

'A compelling delight' - Daily Mail

'Gary Bell is one of Britain's leading criminal barristers. He's also got one of the most interesting CVs I have ever seen.' - Sarah Brett, BBC Radio Five Live

GARY BELL QC is one of Britain's top barristers, with his own hit BBC TV show, a Who's Who entry and a wife whose family is listed in Burke's Landed Gentry.

But behind his silk gown and horsehair wig is a compelling and hilarious backstory.

The chronic bedwetting son of a teenaged cigarette factory worker and a nineteen-year-old miner, Gary grew up in a condemned Nottingham slum, and left his tough comprehensive school without taking any exams to follow his dad down the pit.

He spent his teenage years as a drunken football hooligan known as 'Animal' (for his terrible eating habits, not his fighting skills), baking pies at Pork Farms, stacking shelves at Asda, and trying and failing to become (among other things) a miner, a bricklayer, and a fireman. After being convicted of fraud and sentenced to six months (he worked out how to fiddle pub fruit machines), he was homeless for some years.

Finally deciding to make something of himself, he took O and A levels and hitch-hiked to Bristol University as a mature law student in his mid 20s. After three hilarious years - he somehow managed to wangle a job with a Beverly Hills law firm before he'd even graduated - he went on to become a barrister and, twenty years later, achieved the rare honour of being appointed Queen's Counsel.

His preposterous story - which contains some fascinating details of the many major cases he has worked on - reads like a strange dream and redefines the word 'amazing', as well as being extremely funny, very moving, and utterly life-affirming.


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Détails de Animal QC: My Preposterous Life (English Edition)

Titre du livre : Animal QC: My Preposterous Life (English Edition)

Auteur : Gary Bell QC

Catégorie : Biographies & Memoirs

Nom de fichier : animal-qc-my-preposterous-life-english-edition.pdf

Taille du fichier : 20.58 (La vitesse du serveur actuel est 18 Mbps

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