Sheila Hancock is one of Britain’s most highly regarded and popular actors.
Brought up a Quaker, She received an OBE for services to drama in 1974 and a CBE in 2011.
Since the 1950s she has enjoyed a career across Film, Television, Theatre and Radio.
She has directed and acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Following the death of her husband, John Thaw in 2002, she wrote a memoir of their marriage, The Two of Us, which was a no. 1 bestseller and won the British Book Award for Author of the Year.
Her memoir of her widowhood, Just Me, also a bestseller, was published in 2007.
Now in her eighties, Sheila Hancock has written a scintillating first novel- Mrs Carters War which deals with themes from the peace marches of the fifties and the flowering of the Swinging Sixties in Britain.
To mark International Women’s Day on Sunday 8th March, Sheila was in conversation at Dun Laoighaire’s Pavillion Theatre as part of the Mountains to Sea Book Festival 2015.
Ahead of that interview she spoke to Jacki about her new found love for writing.
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