; Things I Couldn't Tell My Mother by Sue Johnston Ebury Pounds 18.? Pounds 16.99 Inc P&P

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You were meant to be a boy,' was a comment the young Sue Johnston often heard from her mum while growing up. 'I don't mean to sound melodramatic,' she observes at the start of her memoir, 'but comments like this made me feel I was never quite wanted.' So begins this candid, affectionate memoir of Johnston's rise from working- class schoolgirl to one of the best-loved actresses on TV.

Although there are plenty of enjoyable showbiz reminiscences, her book is essentially an attempt to come to terms with a relationship that was never easy and which moulded her life. 'With my mother you always knew where you were,' she writes, 'as disapproval was her default position.' Born in Warrington during the last months of the war, she seemed destined to follow the traditional path of getting a job, finding a man and settling down to have babies. Her father, a quiet, thoughtful man who was fond of quoting Shakespeare, was keen for her to go to university, but to her mother this was 'getting ideas above your station'.

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; Things I Couldn't Tell My Mother by Sue Johnston Ebury Pounds 18.? Pounds 16.99 Inc P&P

But while working in a Liverpool tax office as a teenager in the early Sixties, Johnston encountered the legendary Cavern club and The Beatles. She became...

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