The story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to an electric-meter reader and a seamstress, who was determined to be an actress. Candid and witty, this memoir takes her from her awkward performances in working-men’s clubs at six years of age as dancing ‘Baby Eileen’, through the war years in London, to her breakthrough at thirty-two on Broadway with The Killing of Sister George, for which she received the first of five Tony Award nominations. She co-created ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ and wrote the screenplay for ‘Mrs Dalloway’ (for which she won an Evening Standard Award). Characterised by an eye for the absurd, a terrific knack for storytelling and an insistence on honesty, ‘Will She Do?’ is a raconteur’s tale about family, about class, about youthful ambition and big dreams and what really goes on behind the scenes.

Author Eileen Atkins Published by Virago ISBN 9780349014661 EAN 9780349014661 Bic Code Cover Hardback