My hero: Victoria Wood by AL Kennedy
A writer with an exemplary, generous eye, she was transgressive, warm, intelligent, surreal and bloody funny " she could gently overturn the worldYou may be old enough to remember when Victoria Wood appeared on New Faces on ITV. It was 1974 and Wood was transgressive, warm, intelligent, subversive, joyous, surreal and bloody funny. My gran knew she was funny, my mum knew she was funny, I knew she was funny. Everyone …