Will She Do? av Eileen Atkins

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<p>''She is the cur''s cods, the terrier''s testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the <b>finest actor</b> appearing in the <b>world </b>right now'' - <b>A. A. Gill</b><br><br><br><i>Will She Do? </i>is 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.<br><br>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 <i>The Killing of Sister George</i>, for which she received the first of four Tony Award nominations. She co-created <i>Upstairs, Downstairs</i> and wrote the screenplay for <i>Mrs Dalloway</i> (for which she won an <i>Evening Standard </i>Award) and at aged eighty-six, this is her first autobiographical work.<br><br>Characterised by an eye for the absurd, a terrific knack for s