Old Rage: 'One of our best-loved actor's powerful riposte to a world driving her mad' - DAILY MAIL

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I right away looked up the movie "Edie" which gutted me in the first few minutes (if you watch nothing else see Edie's confrontation with her midlife daughter) and what came after was awfully sweet.

I realised that maybe I wasn’t as much of a wordsmith as I thought I was, as she uses a lot of words that I didn��t understand and had to look up, so prepare yourself for feeling like an English language novice. Absolutely brilliant book and certainly reflects many of the feelings I and my friends felt (and are still feeling) during Covid and even now. I love Sheila's writing as she has such a command of language and seems to find exactly the right way to describe the awful things that happened, the stupid things our so-called leaders actually said to us and how, in general, people are usually good to each other in dire circumstances. We are, after all, a very resilient people.The much-loved actor candidly shares the fear, joy and frustration she has found in her ninth decade' Guardian, Books of the Year 2022 The journal starts in 2016 and carries through into 2022. In her introduction she writes that she hoped the book would be "a gentle record of a fulfilled old age. An inspirational journey. It hasn't turned out like that. As I wrote it, my own and the wider world descended into chaos."

She is kind and doesn’t have a bad word when speaking of people she knows and has met over the years. When Sheila went to the hospital the next day her ninety three Aunt Billie quietly had let go of her grasp on 18th December. Sheila remembered she had spent the most happiest days of her childhood in her Auntie Bill and Uncle Roy’s minuscule flat on the Rue d’Amsterdam. Sheila has also been made a dame (a proper one), an accolade she took in her stride while reflecting on the type of society that created such things, which leads me to mention that her political views are expanded upon here. Let’s just say that Boris Johnson and some of his cronies, along with Trump, were not, and never will be, on her Christmas card list. In my opinion, I did feel there was too much ranting about politics and Brexit for my taste, but it’s clearly a passionate topic for her. I would have preferred more about her as a person and her life and career, but maybe she’s done that in her previous books. It’s very much a rambling, like we’re being invited into her world for a chat. In December 2017 in the Diary entry Sheila’s Aunt Billie had been moved into a hospital and was apparently fading fast. Billie had fought hard to stay in her flat after her fall.It's a memoir, a good one too. I did not know who she was until she was on Graham Norton. She was delightful. In the book, her view of the world is refreshing, not dead certain but tempered with the confounding burden of experience.