The definitive biography of the late Maggie Smith, national treasure and grande dame of stage and screen

The definitive biography of Maggie Smith, grande dame of stage and screen, and a national treasure.

Coveney enticingly lists and quotes from her most remarkable roles, and forbears to intrude on Smith's determinedly private life. Hers is a fascinating story, a true swan hatched from the unlikely nest of a dour Methodist accountant mother and a lab technician father who moved to Oxford during the war.