One of Britain’s best lived comedians is to be the subject of a new authorised biography.

A book about the life of Victoria Wood will be published in October 2020.

It is being written by journalist Jasper Rees with ‘the exclusive authority and full co-operation of Victoria Wood’s estate’.

Rees has previously written a biography of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and the book on which the movie Florence Foster Jenkins was based.

Wood passed away in April 2016 aged 62.