Things I Couldn't Tell My Mother: A Memoir

by Sue Johnston

  It was an honour to play Pat Phoenix

  The wonderful Royle Family

  With Ricky at a Royle Family charity event for the Kirsty Appeal

  Dean Sullivan could always charm my mother

  ‘How old do you think I am, Millie?’ Albert Finney with my aunty

  Me as nurse Sal with the rest of the Jam and Jerusalem cast – I don’t think we ever stopped laughing when we were filming this

  In make-up, Trevor Eve drops by

  This was the final scene ever of Waking the Dead, taken under Waterloo Bridge

  Dad and Mum together in their early seventies

  With my mum on her ninetieth birthday

  The photo we faked for my mother of Joel’s graduation day

  Laughter is the best policy, with Susie

  Receiving my OBE – my mother would have been so proud

  And I was so proud to see Joel getting married to the lovely Zoe

  Acknowledgements

  With thanks to my dear friends and family, they mean everything. They know who they are. To Anne-Marie, my editor, who got me. And to Liverpool Football Club, my passion, in the hope this will buy me free tickets to away games!

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