The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

Pam Ayres is one of Britain's best–loved personalities. She appears regularly on TV and radio, and has her own Radio 4 programme Ayres on the Air. She performs her solo stage show annually to sell–out audiences throughout Britain and around the world and her poetry collections are bestsellers. A key part of Pam’s shows and collections are her wonderfully wry and evocative anecdotes about her own life. Her autobiography will satisfy fans eager to hear more of these stories, and will follow her early life up to winning Opportunity Knocks in 1975. Writing with her usual mix of good humour and poignancy, Pam’s autobiography is a classic memoir of a post–war country childhood in the vein of Cider with Rosie.