This is a memoir of an event-packed life in the form of a series of letters by French, conjuring her transformation from a West Country RAF girl to a star of the cult alternative comedy group The Comic Strip This was followed by the groundbreaking all-female Girls on Top, the TV series French and Saunders and the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley We are invited into her most personal relationships with (among others) her mother and father, her husband (fellow comedian Lenny Henry), and her comedic ally, Jennifer Saunders Everything French describes - from the agonies of being a teenager to the death of her father - and the way in which society defines her by her generous size - is treated with insight