‘A sparkling memoir … A delight from start to finish’ NINA STIBBE <\/b>
‘Anyone who loves the theatre will love this book’ ZO\u00c3\u008b WANAMAKER
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In 1980s London, Sweetpea Slight is en route to drama school when she is snapped up to work as an assistant to the maverick theatre producer Thelma Holt. Full of wit, charm and backstage intrigue, her irresistible memoir of the resulting twenty years is at once the poignant story of a young woman coming of age, and an exhilarating journey down the rabbit hole into the enchanting world of theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At 18, after moving to London with dreams of becoming an actress, an impressionable girl who paints freckles on her face begins work experience in a West End theatre company. In between mail-outs and making cups of coffee she meets the formidable producer Thelma Holt. Within a fortnight Thelma has stolen her, cancelled her audition for RADA, sent her to evening classes to learn to type, organised a miniscule salary and renamed her. From that moment on she becomes Sweetpea. This is a keenly observed memoir about the vanishing world of London’s West End in the 1980s and 1990s, in which a young woman is swept into the orbit of a theatrical impresario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[641],"product_tag":[436,259],"class_list":{"0":"post-96093","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-biography","6":"product_tag-autobiography-arts-entertainment","7":"product_tag-memoirs","8":"pa_book_author-slight-sweetpea","9":"pa_cover-paperback","10":"pa_dewey-792-092-edition23","11":"pa_imprint-weidenfeld-nicolson","12":"pa_language-english","13":"pa_pages-x-255","14":"pa_publisher-orion-publishing-co","15":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","17":"first","18":"onbackorder","19":"taxable","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n