Lucy Gannon reads an extract from ‘The Amazingly Astonishing Story’

To celebrate World Book Day we’re sharing a new video of award-winning screenwriter Lucy Gannon reading from her childhood memoir.

By turns laugh out loud funny and deeply sad, The Amazingly Astonishing Story is a frank and surprising look into a child’s tumultuous mind. Dubbed a “fantastic book” by Dawn French, it is a classic story of a working-class girl growing up in the fifties and sixties, where dreams and reality seem irreconcilable. Her Catholic upbringing, a father torn between daughter and new wife, her irreverent imagination and determination to enjoy life, mean Lucy’s story really is amazing (including meeting the Beatles). Available in bookshops and online at Serenbooks.com.