This affectionate & immensely readable biography charts the remarkable life of Joanna Lumley who has been an endlessly fascinating figure for over four decades since becoming a top model in The Swinging Sixties". Today she is best known for her role as Patsy in " Absolutely Fabulous" & most recently her championing of the Gurkhas' cause for which she is now regarded as a national treasure. An exotic cocktail of Home Counties & Hollywood Joanna is revered as much for her tireless campaigning for animal rights & other causes as for her repertory of characters on stage screen & TV. Tim Ewbank & Stafford Hildred draw on their interviews with Joanna herself her relatives friends & co-stars to produce this meticulously researched & revealing portrait of one of Britain's most likeable stars."