Spies And Stars: Mi5, Showbusiness And Me

Product Descriptionthe Wickedly Funny Sequel To The Mi5 And Me, Described By Tatler As A Stone Cold Comic Classic, Following The Irrepressible LottieS Adventures In 1950S Londonlondon In The 1950S. Lottie Is A Reluctant Typist At Mi5 And The Even More Reluctant Daughter Of The OrganisationS Most Illustrious Spy. Now She Has Had The Bad Luck To Fall In Love With Harry, A Handsome If Frustrated Young Actor, Who Has Also Been Press-Ganged Into The Family Business, Acting As One Of Her FatherS Undercover Agents In The Communist Hotbed Of British Theatre. Together The Two Young Lovers Embark On A Star-Studded Adventure Through The Glittering World Of Theatre - But, Between Missing Files, Disapproving Parents, And Their Own Burgeoning Creative Endeavours, Life Is About To Become Very Complicated Indeed...Reviewthe Great Joy Of BinghamS Prose Is Its Youthful Insouciance. She Writes Like A Teenager, But An Exceptionally Observant One (Spectator)Enormous Fun ... Dazzling (Sunday Express)Wickedly Funny (Country Life)Flamboyance Is The Keynote. I Loved It (Daily Mail, Book Of The Week)She Has A Keen Eye . Bingham Concentrates On Amusing Asides And Scraps Of Dialogue, Andthe Jokes Carry The Story Blithely Along . Its Self-Deprecatory Portrait Of A Girl Adrift Is Engaging, And It Captures Well The Chance Encounters That Are Often Part Of Growing Up (Times Literary Supplement)Praise For Mi5 And Me: Astonishing ... She Still Has All The Exuberant Delight Of A Teenager In Telling Stories To Make Herself And Other People Laugh.Long May She Write (Sunday Times)The Sort Of Light, Frothy Book That Makes Your Laugh Out Loud On Public Transport (Daily Mail, Books Of The Summer 2018)Hilarious And Candid . Filled With Period Detail, BinghamS Memoir Is Entertaining And Extraordinary (Observer)Afun And Breezy Read (Observer, Best Summer Books 2018)A Jilly Cooper Heroine In A John Le Carr World (Times Literary Supplement)A Stone-Cold Comic Classic . Joyfully Silly (Tatler)Sparky And Larky (Guardian)Much Fun It Is .Brilliant, Sly, Charming And Flighty (Spectator)One Funny Story Follows Another . You Will Be Sure To Find This Booka Most Entertaining And Enjoyable Read (Country Life)Book Descriptionthe Wickedly Funny Sequel To The Mi5 And Me, Described By Tatler As A Stone Cold Comic Classic, Following The Irrepressible LottieS Adventures In 1950S Londonabout The Authorcharlotte Bingham Wrote Her First Book, Coronet Among The Weeds, A Memoir Of Her Life As A Debutante, At The Age Of 19. It Was Published In 1963 And Became An Instant Bestseller. Her Father, John Bingham, The 7Th Baron Clanmorris, Was A Member Of M15 Where Charlotte Bingham Worked As A Secretary. He Was An Inspiration For John Le CarrS Character George Smiley. Charlotte Bingham Went On To Write Thirty-Three Internationally Bestselling Novels And, In Partnership With Her Late Husband Terence Brady, A Number Of Successful, Plays, Films And Tv Series Including Upstairs Downstairsand Take Three Girls. She Lives In Somerset.Charlottebingham.Com