Lucy Mangan
Lucy Mangan (born 1974) is a British journalist and author. She is a columnist, features writer and TV critic for The Guardian.[1] Her writing style is both feminist and intended to be humorous.[2]
Mangan grew up in Catford, south east London, but both her parents were originally from Lancashire.[3] She studied English at Cambridge University and trained to be a solicitor. After qualifying as a solicitor, she began to work instead in a bookshop and then, in 2003, found a work experience placement at The Guardian.[3][4]
She continues to work at The Guardian writing a regular column and TV reviews plus occasional features. Her book My Family and other Disasters (2009) is a collection of her newspaper columns. She has also written books about her childhood and her wedding.[3][4]
Mangan also has a regular column for Stylist magazine[5] and has been a judge for the Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize.[6]
Books
- Hopscotch & Handbags: The Truth about Being a Girl Lucy Mangan, Headline (2013) ISBN 9780755316489
- The Reluctant Bride: One Woman's Journey (Kicking and Screaming) Down the Aisle , Lucy Mangan, Guardian Books (2012) ISBN 184854359X
- My Family and other Disasters Lucy Mangan, Hachette (2010) ISBN 0852653689
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory was published by Puffin UK/US. (2015) ISBN 9780147513489
Reception of books
Mangan's books have received mixed reviews. Spiked wrote about Hopscotch & Handbags "Handbags and Hopscotch will not disappoint Mangan’s fans. It is souped-up, satin-sheet, five-star bilge – with lots and lots of lovely exaggeration, jokes and stylistic quirks." and "I can’t say I’ve ever found the experience of being a girl ‘so appalling’ that I have to retreat to the woods to howl – but reading Mangan’s book brings me close. Forget childbirth and Brazilian waxing, if you want a truly agonising female experience flick through Hopscotch and Handbags."[7] The Reluctant Bride has been called "outrageously frank, brilliantly entertaining and laugh-out-loud"[8] while My Family and other Disasters has been described as "the kind of book to take on holiday, to dip into at random moments".[9] The San Diego Book Review wrote about Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory "This is a book which must accompany viewing whichever platform your heart connects to Charlie, the boy we all dreamed we could be, befriend so we too could enjoy the spoils of the candy forest and meet the Umpa Lumpas first hand."[10]
References
- ↑ Lucy Mangan's page at the Guardian Last accessed March 2016
- ↑ Mangan on her feminism, The Guardian, 19 September 2009
- 1 2 3 Feminist education has been the making of me Interview with The Daily Telegraph, 6 May 2013
- 1 2 Biography at Blake Freidman Agent's page, accessed March 2016
- ↑ Lucy Mangan's page at Stylist magazine Accessed March 2016
- ↑ "Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012". www.booktrust.org.uk. Book Trust. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ Emily Hill (August 2007). "Review of Books Handbags at Dawn". Spiked. spiked Ltd. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ Norfolk, Pam (26 May 2010). "Book review: The Reluctant Bride by Lucy Mangan". Lancashire Evening Post. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "My_Family_and_Other_Disasters_by_Lucy_Mangan". www.thebookbag.co.uk. The Bookbag. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ↑ Wendy Stevens (15 August 2015). "Inside Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". www.sandiegobookreview.com. San Diego Book Review. Retrieved 20 April 2016.