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Thread #161584   Message #3896652
Posted By: Vic Smith
31-Dec-17 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: Peggy Seeger biography 2017
Subject: RE: Peggy Seeger biography 2017
Not exactly hot off the press because the book seems to have been around for months but it was reviewed in the Review supplement of yesterday's The Guardian.

To be honest it is not a well written review compared with the high standards that one expects of the accounts in that section and it would appear that the writer, Sukhdev Sandhu, knows little about the writers of both the book and the song. Clearly, he is a highly regarded, well qualified reviewer though here he gives a precis of the book with a number of quotations rather than a critique, offering little insight and limiting opinion to the final short paragraph. In spite of that he gives a feel of the book which, it would seem, is a very honest, 'warts and all' account of her life with MacColl. It seems that married life was not always easy but with differences in background, nationality, age, education etc. that was surely to be expected. There was certainly enough of my interest generated by the review to make me want to read it.
Read it at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/27/first-time-ever-by-peggy-seeger-review-a-memoir-of-folk-royalty