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77 – The Art of Life as taught at the Abbey School of Acting

Posted on March 23, 2016March 23, 2016

‘The thing about my mother,’ Finola Finlay tells me with a smile, ‘is that she is a completely unreliable narrator.’ I love Lilian Roberts-Finlay from that moment. Discovering the ‘truth’ has long ago ceased to be part of this treasure hunt. Facts I will take, documents are great, but I’ve…

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