The Happy Hoofer Book

'I've always been wilful...I've always been stubborn and always determined'One of our best-loved actresses Celia Imrie would rather have been a dancer. As a child she planned to join the Royal Ballet and marry Rudolf Nureyev. Now she has become one of our finest and funniest performers on stage TV and screen - adored for her roles in Acorn Antiques and dinnerladies as well as films including Calendar Girls and Nanny McPhee.In her hugely entertaining autobiography Celia Imrie recounts a life hurtling (not always intentionally) into adventures both on stage and off. Whether it's finding herself on stage with half the scenery stuck to her cardigan or being kidnapped on her way to location somehow she emerges from the chaos unscathed.Acting she admits is a mad chaotic profession and it is her refreshing honesty sense of mischief fun and almost unruffled determination in the face of it all that makes this autobiography a never-ending delight.Read More