Getting Away With Murder: A Memoir (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Few figures in British television and crime fiction have wielded a pen as sharp or a vision as unflinching as Lynda La Plante, and Getting Away with Murder: A Memoir is the definitive account of a life lived at the very edge of ambition and creativity. From her early days as a struggling actress to her meteoric rise as the creator of groundbreaking crime dramas such as Prime Suspect, La Plante chronicles her extraordinary journey through the male-dominated corridors of the British entertainment industry with candour, wit, and a storyteller's instinct for the telling detail. She recounts the battles fought, the doors slammed shut, and the triumphs wrested from a world that repeatedly underestimated her — all rendered with the same unflinching honesty that defines her finest dramatic work. Written with the pace and authority of a seasoned crime writer, this memoir is far more than a showbusiness autobiography; it is a testament to resilience, creative courage, and the refusal to be silenced. La Plante's voice — wry, self-aware, and compulsively readable — illuminates broader truths about gender, power, and artistic integrity in twentieth-century Britain. Readers who believe they know the woman behind Widows and The Governor will find themselves confronted by a story richer, stranger, and more hard-won than they ever imagined.
Author: Lynda La Plante
Format: Hardback
Published: 2024, Zaffre
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Few figures in British television and crime fiction have wielded a pen as sharp or a vision as unflinching as Lynda La Plante, and Getting Away with Murder: A Memoir is the definitive account of a life lived at the very edge of ambition and creativity. From her early days as a struggling actress to her meteoric rise as the creator of groundbreaking crime dramas such as Prime Suspect, La Plante chronicles her extraordinary journey through the male-dominated corridors of the British entertainment industry with candour, wit, and a storyteller's instinct for the telling detail. She recounts the battles fought, the doors slammed shut, and the triumphs wrested from a world that repeatedly underestimated her — all rendered with the same unflinching honesty that defines her finest dramatic work. Written with the pace and authority of a seasoned crime writer, this memoir is far more than a showbusiness autobiography; it is a testament to resilience, creative courage, and the refusal to be silenced. La Plante's voice — wry, self-aware, and compulsively readable — illuminates broader truths about gender, power, and artistic integrity in twentieth-century Britain. Readers who believe they know the woman behind Widows and The Governor will find themselves confronted by a story richer, stranger, and more hard-won than they ever imagined.