No Copy of the Script: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Casting Director - Softcover

Whatmough, Sue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452049599 ISBN 13: 9781452049595

Publisher: Authorhouse, 2011

Synopsis

In this intimate portrait, Sue Whatmough falls pregnant at eighteen and discovers the parental love she had taken for granted is dependent on good behaviour. Her happy childhood is over.

Sue's entertaining journey from the early sixties to the late eighties, highlights the emergence of a new perspective on sex and women's liberation. The upheavals of her personal life are offset by her successful career in the television industry and her sardonic exposé of the casting process is unique and revealing.

Her indomitable spirit and humorous outlook have combined to create a memoir as uplifting as it is poignant.

'I loved the whole atmosphere of the book. Sue manages to capture the era of the sixties perfectly, not just with her descriptions of life in London on the pill but the changing attitudes of young women to sex and the opposite sex. The confusion many of us felt about taking drugs or drinking or free love. She engaged me from Page one and I thoroughly enjoyed the book to the end.' LYNDA BELLINGHAM

About this title

About the Author

Sue Whatmough was a casting director for theatre, films and television for 25 years and latterly packaged and co-produced the phenominally successful 'BLOTT ON THE LANDSCAPE'. Her first solo producing project was the three-parter 'COME HOME CHARLIE AND FACE THEM' for London Weekend Television.
A personal tragedy brought her producing career to a standstill, so she moved to South West France and turned to writing scripts and screenplays.
Since leaving the UK, she has run an antiques and restoration business, re-trained in computer graphics (she's a whizz at Photoshop)and opened a graphic design company.
In 2001 she became involved in a project to build a home for AIDS orphans in Malawi - the home opened in 2003. In 2007 she became a correspondent for The French News English-language monthly paper and more recently has been a feature writer for The French Week newspaper.
Alongside her writing projects, she runs creative writing courses, designs greetings cards and helps her partner, writer Leaf Fielding, with his organic food business.
She lives in Hautes-Pyrénées, is a vegetarian going-on vegan, a passionate animal lover and writer of letters to the Guardian Weekly under her married name of Sue Barber.
She loves to cook, paint, read, dance, walk and travel.

From the Back Cover

In this intimate portrait, Sue Whatmough falls pregnant at eighteen and discovers the parental love she had taken for granted is dependent on good behaviour. Her happy childhood is over.
Sue's entertaining journey from the early sixties to the late eighties, highlights the emergence of a new perspective on sex and women's liberation. The upheavals of her personal life are offset by her successful career in the television industry and her sardonic exposé of the casting process is unique and revealing.
Her indomitable spirit and humorous outlook have combined to create a memoir as uplifting as it is poignant.

Edition details

• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1452049599
• ISBN 13: 9781452049595
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296