Maggie's Tree

This book by Julie Walters, is written in a different way to most, although it is becoming a way that one or two authors are adopting, that of using a chapter to talk about one character's part in the story. With this book to begin with I was confused and could not understand how the characters linked together, then suddenly a third of the way through I grabbed the significance of each players part.

I could hear the voice of Julie Walters telling the story although I was reading a book.  The catalogue of incidents that go on are hard to believe but they certainly put some twists and turns into what turns out to be a brilliant book.  I think I decided that she would have played the part of Cissie if it was ever made into a film or TV drama.

Many of us think of Julie Walters as playing a character part in TV series that we have seen on television or film, but to see her  having branched out into writing a book about a topic that she has a great deal of knowledge about has been fun and inative - also enlightening as to what goes on behind closed doors in the world of theatre.

Having got to the end, I re-read the book at speed to make sure I had understood the story fully and its brillance and its setting our wonderful.