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JO HAS BEEN an award-winning TV drama and comedy producer all her working life. Her credits range from the recent MANHUNT, starring Martin Clunes, to BIRDS OF A FEATHER. Her most relevant productions include BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (a fictionalised story of the first women who ran Ann Summers parties in the 1980s), THE MAKING OF A LADY (an adaption of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Making of a Marchioness), BERTIE AND ELIZABETH (telling the story of the Queen Mother's marriage) and the BAFTA-and-RTS Award-Winning A RATHER ENGLISH MARRIAGE (starring Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Joanna Lumley, adapted from the novel of the same name by Angela Lambert). She studied English at Queens' College Cambridge and has an MA in Arts Policy. She is married with a daughter, a son and a step-son. She lives in London. www.devoniaroad.co.uk.
"""'Brilliantly written biography of a fearless woman who changed the course of history. Hard to imagine a more timely account of a woman who should be a role model for a generation. Put her on every twenty pound note until she is""--Anne Sebba, author of That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, Les Parisiennes, and Jennie Churchill ""If you love history and biographies, you'll have a lovely time with this""--Stylist Magazine ""Jo Willett plunges us into Mary's life with clarity and wit - a page turner from the start - a fascinating, courageous life. Unnervingly pertinent for our troubled times"" --Actress Anna Chancellor, Four Weddings and a Funeral (Duckface), The Hour, Ordeal by Innocence."
