"Between churning butter-substitute on the stage of the award-winning musical Oklahoma! and doling out the barley soup in the only Welsh Yiddish film to be nominated for an Oscar, she has found time to get trussed up in black plastic in Birmingham, seduced by a wet mammal in Barbados, distorted by a mammogram in a Wood Green car park and painted with a yoghurt on a Thai health farm. These 'collected writhings' are the result."

I've always enjoyed Maureen Lipman as a performer (although I have never seen her on stage), but this is the first time I have read her. A pure joy (although I did cry at one bit, but I read that bit out to my son and he didn't comprehend why I was emotional, so it's probably something to do with my age). Thoroughly recommended.