Things I Couldnt Tell My Mother

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There was a lot that we kept from my mother. My dad would say to me as a teenager Dont tell your mother". We couldnt face the disapproval. Sue Johnston always seemed to be disappointing her mother. As a girl she never stayed clean & tidy like her cousins. As she grew older she spent all her piano lesson money on drinks for her mates down the pub & when she discovered the Cavern she was never at home. The final straw was when Sue left her steady job at a St Helens factory to try her hand at that unsteadiest of jobs: acting. Yet when Sue was bringing up her own child alone her mother was always there to help. & playing her much-loved characters Sheila Grant & Barbara Royle
- although her mum wouldnt say she was proud as such she certainly seemed to approve. & in her mothers final months it was Sue she needed by her side. The relationship with your mother is perhaps the most precious & fraught of any womans life. When she began writing Sue set out to record all the big things & all the small things. Everything I wanted to tell my mother but felt I never could. The result is a warm poignant & often very funny memoir by one of Britains favourite actresses."