Pride of Our Alley

<p>This is the hardback volume 2 of 2.</p><p><br />“What has Gracie Fields got to do with anything?”<br />—Alan Bennett The History Boys</p><p>In this new in-depth biography of the Queen of Hearts of her generation discover in great detail the answer to Alan Bennett’s question.</p><p>From humble beginnings above a fish and chip shop in Rochdale to the beautiful Isle of Capri follow the complete story of the Queen of the British Music Halls and her seven-decade career. Discover how a mill girl from a Northern English industrial town conquered stage screen and radio and became Hollywood’s highest paid film star of the 1930s.</p><p>With hundreds of previously unpublished stories facts photographs and interviews Pride of Our Alley tells the story of Our Gracie Fields for the first time in its honest factual entirety.</p><p>Sebastian Lassandro first heard the music of Gracie Fields when a school student. Over ten years later he is a now a recognised and renowned expert on his subject and tender of the eternal flame of “Our Gracie.”</p><p> </p>