Sheila Hancock Press Reviews
The much-loved actor candidly shares the fear, joy and frustration she has found in her ninth decade - Guardian Books of the Year 2022
'This book should be required reading for EVERYONE! I was belly laughing but also reduced to tears. Sheila is the wisest of women ... I want to be Sheila Hancock when I grow up' - Lorraine Kelly
'Sheila Hancock reflects upon her life and career with all the winning candour and warm-heartedness we have come to expect from the legendary actress - Waterstones
'Sheila Hancock's memoir Old Rage promises to be funny, feisty and honest' - Irish Independent, Books of the Year 2022
'A warm and thoughtful memoirist ... Hancock discovers many reasons for joy and optimism - and you're quite likely to find yourself nodding in agreement with her.' - Woman and Home, The best non-fiction books to read in 2022 to inspire and enthral
'Praise for Sheila Hancock: 'Her writing is starkly honest... she is never less than courageous and often desperately moving' - Daily Telegraph
'Terrific ... shining through it is the spirit of Sheila herself: brave, indomitable and full of a desire to change the world for the better' - Judy Finnigan, Daily Express
'Entertaining' - SPECTATOR
'Glorious' - Paul O'Grady
'Emotionally wrenching ... captures her heartfelt grief as much as it does her bittersweet philosophy that life goes on, and there are adventures to be had yet' - Arifa Akba, Independent
'Heartbreakingly moving wise, funny and deeply touching' - Daily Mail
'A naturally gifted writer' - Sunday Times
'Her gift for directly communicating the open-heartedness and spirit of adventure with which she confronts her life ... is the stuff of bestsellers' - Joan Bakewell, Guardian
About Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock is one of Britain’s most highly regarded and popular actors, and received an OBE for services to drama in 1974 and a CBE in 2011. Since the 1950s she has enjoyed a career across film, television, theatre and radio. Her first big television role was in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade in the early 1960s. She has directed and acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Her first book, Ramblings of an Actress, was published in 1987.
Following the death of her husband, John Thaw, Sheila Hancock wrote a memoir of their marriage, The Two of Us, which was a no. 1 bestseller and won the British Book Award for Author of the Year in 2004. Her memoir of her widowhood, Just Me, also a bestseller, was published in 2008. She lives in London and France.
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