I'm Still Here

Amanda Barrie, the iconic Cleo in 'Carry on Cleo' and much-loved Alma in 'Coronation Street', was born in 1935, above her grandfather's tailor's shop in Ashton Under Lyne, during a ferocious thunderstorm. And ever since her journey through life has been a stormy one. This book tells the whole story for the first time, from her expulsion from two schools and running away from home aged 13 to be a Soho showgirl, to rising from the chorus to star in the West End, to 'Carry On Cabby' and 'Carry On C