OUR JOYCE

Set in the pr-e-war Bristol of corset and chocolate factories, of 'service' and glamorous silent movies, 'Our Joyce' is about school, the first job, the first love and a sorrily mismatched marriage - all told with a brilliant eye for the comic in the tragic.

Joyce Storey, born near Bristol in 1917, began her autobiography at age 66. Destined to join the ranks of Laurie Lee's, Helen Forrester's and Kathleen Dayus' autobiographical classics of the twentieth century, 'Our Joyce', and it's sequel 'Joyce's War', evokes in marvellously vivid colours, the ordinary story of an extraordindary working-class woman's life.