Details: Glamorous, ambitious & headstrong, Doreen Lawrence entertained audiences in Britain throughout the Blitz & from 1942 the troops in India, Africa & Burma. From the age of four, the theatre shaped her world. By 18, she was a hard-working actress engaged to the young Peter Cushing. At the outbreak of war, she married a soldier who was posted abroad, & through ENSA (the organization set up to provide entertainment for the troops), Doreen joined the India Repertory Company. A fraught reunion with her husband signalled the end of their brief marriage
- but a year later she met Jack Hawkins. They fell in love as the Company criss-crossed India by train, ending up high in the jungle on the Burmese border where the Japanese advance into India had only just been halted. In 1946, she left India & the last days of the Raj to join demobbed Britain in the search for work & a roof. After Jack's return, they were finally able to make a future together. Read by Belinda Lang. Ideal for: Fans of wartime fiction. Running time approximately: 9 hours 30 minutes. 8 CD's unabridged.