A slim volume about a tragic life. Mrs Shufflewick was a cross dressing comic of the 1950s - the product, like many of that period, of WWII and the training ground in ENSA. Like many others of that time they found difficulty in coping with being a comic in post war Britain, and although superficially successful - appearing at the top venues in the country and on radio - managed to fritter all the profits away in drink and with unsuitable managers, and much more unsuitable relationships. Very much a tragedy, with the inevitability of his fate (heart attack brought on by generalised drink related abuse of major organs) is apparent from the opening page. Rating 6/10
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