Getting Away With Murder
From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RADA; from beginning her scriptwriting career with WIDOWS and PRIME SUSPECT to becoming a BAFTA award-winning writer and producer, Lynda La Plante has an important story to tell, one of breaking down stereotypes and blazing a trail for others along the way. Starting her writing career in the eighties, an era of entrenched gender inequality both in front of and behind the camera, Lynda faced innumerable obstacles to her vision. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER shows how she overcame them to create generation-defining television and become a multi-million-copy SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author. Still at the very top of her game, Lynda shares her story on her own terms, in a way that's guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, and be inspired to live a life without limits.
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Getting Away With Murder
From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RADA; from beginning her scriptwriting career with WIDOWS and PRIME SUSPECT to becoming a BAFTA award-winning writer and producer, Lynda La Plante has an important story to tell, one of breaking down stereotypes and blazing a trail for others along the way. Starting her writing career in the eighties, an era of entrenched gender inequality both in front of and behind the camera, Lynda faced innumerable obstacles to her vision. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER shows how she overcame them to create generation-defining television and become a multi-million-copy SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author. Still at the very top of her game, Lynda shares her story on her own terms, in a way that's guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, and be inspired to live a life without limits.
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Getting Away With Murder

Getting Away With Murder

by Lynda La Plante
Getting Away With Murder

Getting Away With Murder

by Lynda La Plante

Overview

From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RADA; from beginning her scriptwriting career with WIDOWS and PRIME SUSPECT to becoming a BAFTA award-winning writer and producer, Lynda La Plante has an important story to tell, one of breaking down stereotypes and blazing a trail for others along the way. Starting her writing career in the eighties, an era of entrenched gender inequality both in front of and behind the camera, Lynda faced innumerable obstacles to her vision. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER shows how she overcame them to create generation-defining television and become a multi-million-copy SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author. Still at the very top of her game, Lynda shares her story on her own terms, in a way that's guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, and be inspired to live a life without limits.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785123696
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
Publication date: 03/04/2025
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She is the author of nearly forty novels, all of which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with the National theatre and RDC before becoming a television actress. She then turned to writing—and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series Widows.

Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the 1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award.

Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer's Award in 2000. In 2008, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and Charity.

Lynda La Plante is the first lay person to be awarded an honorary fellowship to the Forensic Science Society. In 2020 she launched the acclaimed Listening to the Dead podcast with former CSI Cass Sutherland, exploring forensic science and its impact on solving crimes.
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