{"product_id":"9780349014678-untitled-eileen-atkins","title":"Will She Do?","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAct One of a Life on Stage\u003cbr\u003eThe acclaimed memoir of one of Britain's most loved actresses, a girl from Tottenham with big dreams who is now Dame Eileen Atkins. `Wit as dry as a martini' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/i\u003e `Bliss' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e `Exhilarating' \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the \u003cb\u003efinest actor\u003c\/b\u003e appearing in the \u003cb\u003eworld \u003c\/b\u003eright now' - \u003cb\u003eA. A. Gill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWill She Do? \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCandid 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Killing of Sister George\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she received the first of four Tony Award nominations. She co-created \u003ci\u003eUpstairs, Downstairs\u003c\/i\u003e and wrote the screenplay for \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e (for which she won an \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard \u003c\/i\u003eAward) and at aged eighty-six, this is her first autobiographical work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharacterised by an eye for the absurd, a terrific knack for storytelling and an insistence on honesty, \u003ci\u003eWill She Do?\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful raconteur's tale about family, about class, about youthful ambition and big dreams and what really goes on behind the scenes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMade a Dame in 1991, Eileen Atkins has been on American and British stage and screen since 1957 and has won an Emmy, a BAFTA and is a three-time Olivier Award winner; her theatre performances include \u003ci\u003eThe Height of the Storm, Ellen Terry, All that Fall\u003c\/i\u003e and she has appeared in television and films ranging from \u003ci\u003eDoc Martin\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eCranford \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eThe Crown.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943248048225,"sku":"9780349014678","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29760031.jpg?v=1725720885","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780349014678-untitled-eileen-atkins","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}