Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things she enjoyed most in life. Her subjects include:
• Bed (Getting Into It)
• Booksellers Catalogues
• Christmas Morning
• Driving a Car
• Flattery
• Heresies
• Not Going to Parties
• Shopping Abroad
• Writing
While each essay can be read on its own as a short dose of delicious writing, the collection is also an autobiographical selection, revealing glimpses of Rose’s own life, and making us laugh helplessly with her inimitable humour.
