{"product_id":"lets-do-it-1","title":"Lets Do It","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRadio Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDaily Herald\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFT\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''I was born  with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being  born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria but you are not  supposed to know who wrote this anyway it is about time I unleashed my  pent-up emotions in a bitter comment on the state of our society but  it''s not quite me so I think I shall write a heart-warming story with  laughter behind the tears and tears behind the laughter which means  hysterics to you Philistines...''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom ''Pardon?'' by Vicky Wood, Aged 14. Bury Grammar School (Girls) Magazine, 1967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  her passport Victoria Wood listed her occupation as ''entertainer'' - and  in stand-up and sketches, songs and sitcom, musicals and dramas, she  became the greatest entertainer of the age. Those things that might have  held her back - her lonely childhood, her crippling shyness and above  all the disadvantage of being a woman in a male-run industry - she  turned to her advantage to make extraordinary comedy about ordinary  people living ordinary lives in ordinary bodies. She wasn''t fond of the  term, but Victoria Wood truly was a national treasure - and her loss is  still keenly felt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Victoria had plenty of stories still to tell when she died in 2016, and one of those was her own autobiography. ''I will do it one day,'' she told the author and journalist Jasper Rees.  ''It would be about my childhood, about my first few years in  showbusiness, which were really interesting and would make a really nice  story.'' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That sadly never came to pass, so Victoria''s estate  has asked Jasper Rees, who interviewed her more than anyone else, to  tell her extraordinary story in full. He has been granted complete and  exclusive access to Victoria''s rich archive of personal and professional  material, and has conducted over 200 interviews with her family,  friends and colleagues - among them Victoria''s children, her sisters,  her ex-husband Geoffrey Durham, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Dawn French,  Anne Reid, Imelda Staunton and many more. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat emerges is a portrait of a true pioneer who spoke to her audience like no one before or since.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314796831102,"sku":"NW9781409184119","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781409184119.jpg?v=1778646280","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/lets-do-it-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}