Pulling Myself Together - Denise Welch

I have been a fan of Denise Welch for many years. I enjoyed her playing Natalie in Coronation Street a few years ago (1997-2000) and also love watching her current role as teacher Steph Haydock in Waterloo Road. She is my favourite Loose Women presenter too. I think she is beautiful, witty, honest and always entertaining. I can also relate to her battle with depression, so I was interested to read her autobiography Pulling Myself Together. The cover has a lovely shot of the glamorous Denise, now in her early fifties and a wonderful example to us women in our forties that the future can be ... more

I mainly read fiction but occasionally read biographies so when I saw this one by chance lying on a returned trolley in my local library I thought I would give it a read. This book is the autobiography of Denise Welch, actress and Loose Woman and I must say that I have really enjoyed this autobiography more than any I have read previously. There are many things that I have read in the book that I did not previously know about Denise. Although she is famously married to Tim Healy and has suffered from depression for many years, I did not know that she was previously married to another actor and ... more