All About My Mother: The Life of Diana Rigg

Legendary actress Diana Rigg was a force to be reckoned with.Her 50+-year, multi-award-winning career included everything from the iconic smart-talking, cat-suited Emma Peel in the Avengers to being the only Bond girl 007 ever married, to iconic stage performances in Mother Courage, Jumpers and Medea and unforgettable TV appearances in Detectorists (in which Rachael played her daughter) and as Lady Tyrell in Game of Thrones.She never wrote an autobiography (but she clearly thought a lot about it) -- her highly unconventional life was full of incident and drama and she knew everyone. Perhaps you've never heard of Diana Rigg. That doesn't matter, for in these pages I intend to conjure her up in all her glory, and I promise you will feel as if you do know her by the end.In fact, I hope you will feel like you've known her always, been pissed together often, howled with laughter and sobbed alongside her for all eighty-two of her glorious years on Earth.Her story, her outlook, her legacy, is