“It is a masterclass in great biographical writing. “A Life With Footnotes captures the genius that was Terry Pratchett, with warmth, poignancy and great good humour – and with no small amount of love,” said Finlay. Transworld managing director Larry Finlay said that “only Wilkins” could have written the “intimate, engaging and revealing portrait of one of the UK’s most loved and most missed authors”. Wilkins will also cover how Pratchett coped with the challenges of Alzheimer’s. Publisher Transworld said it would move from Pratchett being told at the age of six by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything, through the writing of the bestselling Discworld series, his winning the Carnegie medal and his knighthood for services to literature. The biography will be published in September. Terry was one of the most talented, complex, intellectually stimulating people I’ve ever had the privilege of meeting – a true genius.” This time, however, it results in a disjointed narrative that isnt quite up to Pratchetts standards. Like the other Death books, Death has taken a break and something must be done in the meantime. “Living a life alongside one of the world’s greatest authors, then reliving every moment for his biography, has been an incredible journey. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett is decidedly weaker then the other books in the Death sub-series of Discworld books. A Life With Footnotes is a book that I hope would have made Terry proud,” said Wilkins. “The responsibility of documenting his life when I lived so much of it with him has been such an emotive experience.
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