Julie Walters - THAT'S ANOTHER STORY

review by Maggie Perkovic 17th March
I SUPPOSE WHEN YOU GET SOMEONE AS FUNNY
AND ENTERTAINING AS JULE WALTERS YOU
EXPECT HER BOOK TO BE EQUALLY SO.
SADLY, THIS WAS NOT THE CASE.
INTERESTING, ER YES, BUT QUITE HONESTLY
ALTHOUGH SHE WAS FROM BIRMINGHAM, HER
STORY WAS VERY LIKE A LOT OF CHILDREN BORN TO A STRONG CATHOLIC MOTHER, AND A GENTLE DAD.
I COULD RECOGNISE HER MOTHER IN MINE, WITH THIS EXPECTATION YOU CAME FIRST IN EVERYTHING, NOT SECOND, NOT THIRD BUT FIRST!!
IF NOT, THERE WAS TROUBLE!!!
LATER WHEN SHE WENT INTO NURSING TO PLEASE HER MOTHER, SHE HAD TO PLUCK UP COURAGE TO TELL HER SHE HAD CHANGED HER MIND AND WAS TO BE AN ACTRESS.
A DECISION SHE NEVER REGRETTED, MOVING
FROM DROLL CHARACTER PARTS TO HER
PORTRAYAL IN *EDUCATING RITA* WHICH WON
AWARDS.
SHE IS HONEST, SHE TALKS ABOUT HER PARTNER PETE POSTLETHWAITE, WITH WHOM SHE LIVED FOR SOME YEARS, AND WE LEARN JUST HOW GOOD AN ACTRESS SHE IS WHEN YOU SEE HER BODY OF WORK.
BUT SHE ADMITS, HER BEST ROLES ARE THOSE OF OLD LADIES, LIKE THE WOBBLY WAITRESS FROM *ACORN ANTIQUES*, WHO BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN EVERYTIME.
A VERY DOWN TO EARTH ACTRESS, NOW HAPPY
WITH HUSBAND GRANT AND DAUGHTER MAISIE,
THE CHILD THEY NEARLY LOST THROUGH
LEUKEMIA, SHE IS NOW A PRETTY TWENTY YEAR OLD.
HER FRIENDSHIP AND ADMIRATION FOR VICTORIA WOOD IS PLAIN TO SEE, AND THE WORK THEY HAVE DONE THROUGH THE YEARS MAKE THEM BOTH NATIONAL TREASURES.
ENJOYABLE BUT A BIT PREDICTABLE AT THE
BEGINNING, EXCEPT FOR WHERE SHE EXPLAINS THAT HER BIRTH WAS RATHER TRAUMATIC, AT ONE STAGE HER DAD WAS ASKED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN HER OR HER MOTHER, AND HE CHOSE HER!!!!
SHE SAID HER MOTHER NEVER FORGOT THAT, AND IT REMAINED WITH HER ALL HER LIFE!!!!
review by Mags