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1、Uint 11Sometimes Its Hard to Be a Woman, or A Man or HumanText-related information1. Tim Lott (born 23 January 1956, Southall, West London) is a British author. After running his own magazine publishing business, he graduated from the London School of Economics in 1986.His first book, the semi-autob
2、iographical The Scent of Dried Roses, was published in 1996 and won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. His next work, White City Blue, was published in 1999 and won that years Whitbread Award for Best First Novel.He was also shortlisted in the Best Novel category of the 2002 Whitbread Award
3、s for his work, Rumours of a Hurricane. He has since published The Love Secrets of Don Juan, The Seymour Tapes and Fearless.The Scent of Dried Roses, a memoir of his family and his own life, remains his most acclaimed work. Beginning with the tragedy of his own mothers suicide, his memoir is a rich
4、account. On the broader scale, he paints nuanced pictures of what it means to be working class, and how the English suburbs developed from the 1950s to the 1980s. More personally, also describes his own life journey, as he began to move beyond his familys roots, then go through depression and emerge
5、 at the other side only to face renewed tragedy, when the mother who had been so caring for him with his own mental illness, takes her own life.His latest novel is Fearless, published on June 4 2007. It is a mythic, political, dystopian fable a group of 1,000 girls confined to an institute in a time
6、 of terror. Fearless is published in both adult and young adult editions. He has also had a weekly column in the London Evening Standard.2. Allison Pearson (born 1960, Carmarthen) is a British writer. She is best-known for her period as a Daily Mail columnist and for a novel published in 2002, I Don
7、t Know How She Does It.3. The Daily Mail is a British, daily middle market tabloid newspaper. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdoms second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. The Daily Mail was Britains first daily newspaper aimed at the newly-literate low
8、er-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks, and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day.4. Stephanie Merritt (born 1974 in Surrey) is a critic and feature writer for various publicatio
9、ns including The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman, Zembla and Die Welt. She has also been Deputy Literary Editor and a staff writer at The Observer.5. Marian Keyes (born 10 September 1963) is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for her work in womens literature.6. Sally
10、 Hampton (born July 29, 1958 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer and film producer living in Los Angeles, USA.7. Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is an English actress, comedienne and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson
11、won multiple acting awards, including an Academy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her strong performance in the British drama Howards End.8. Coronation Street (affectionately nicknamed Corrie) is a British prime-time soap opera set in the fictional town of Weatherfield, four miles in either d
12、irection from and a suburb of the city of Manchester, England. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street is the longest running and most watched British soap opera. 9. Beverley Callard (born March 28, 1957 in Morley, Leeds) is an English actress, best known for her role as Liz McDonald in ITVs Coron
13、ation Street, and Floella Henshaw in BBC Threes Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.10. The Guardian (until 1959, The Manchester Guardian) is a British national daily newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Founded in 1821, it is unique among major British newspapers in being owned by a f
14、oundation (the Scott Trust, via the Guardian Media Group). It is known for its left of centre political stance.11. Kira Cochrane is a the Guardian writer.12. Dr. Dorothy Rowe (born December 1930) is an Australian psychologist and author, whose area of interest is depression. Dr. Rowe currently resid
15、es in the United Kingdom.Language Points1. The decision comes hard on the heels. On the heel of something-very soon after something. This expression means one event followed straight after or very soon after the first one.Example:The decision to by Peter came hard on the heels of the clubs promotion
16、 to Sams.2. patches of acute mental distress-a bad/difficult/sticky/rough patch means a period of time when you are having a lot of difficulties. Example:Gemmas going through a bad patch right now.3. Unhappiness bleeds into depression. If something bleeds into another thing, it unfortunately can develop into a bad situation. 4. That unsquareable circle alone. The expression “square the circle” is used to mean that a
