Shortly thereafter, a mutual friend introduced her to Paterson, and after a successful pilot show for the BBC in 1994, 'Two Fat Ladies' was broadcast around the world. She went on to run a bookstore, Books for Cooks, in London's Notting Hill, then moved to Edinburgh where she ran the Cooks Book Shop. By 1983, she was homeless and had to live with friends and eventually found work as a cook in private clubs and in private homes. Initially trained as a lawyer, becoming the country's youngest barrister at 21, she inherited her mother's fortune upon her death, but crippling depression brought on by the loss of both parents led to alcoholism which brought her legal career to an abrupt end. Dickson Wright, whose mother was an Australian heiress and her father a surgeon, grew up in a nine-bedroom house in north London. Along with Jennifer Paterson, she was one half of the 'Two Fat Ladies' duo.
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