Will She Do? 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. 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 The Killing of Sister George, for which she received the first of four Tony Award nominations. She co-created Upstairs, Downstairs and wrote the screenplay for Mrs Dalloway (for which she won an Evening Standard Award) and at aged eighty-six, this is her first autobiographical work. Characterised by an eye for the absurd, a terrific knack for storytelling and an insistence on honesty, Will She Do? is a wonderful raconteur\'s tale about family, about class, about youthful ambition and big dreams and what really goes on behind the scenes. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349014661 • Author: Eileen Atkins • Publisher: Virago • Format: Hardback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 3.4 cm