Charting the rise of Stella Ravencroft from struggling entertainer on the northern club circuit to huge national superstar, Stella was the second novel from comedy legend Eric Morecambe.
The unfinished manuscript for Stella was discovered by EricтАЩs son, Gary, shortly after his fatherтАЩs death. Encouraged by EricтАЩs wife Joan, Gary completed the novel.
Drawing heavily on EricтАЩs own childhood and rise to fame, Stella is a rare fictional account of a now vanished era of entertainment, from working menтАЩs clubs to variety shows pulling in 20m viewers on the television.
Eric Morecambe is a true comedy legend. One half of Morecambe & Wise whose Christmas television specials ruled with airwaves during the 1970s, he is still viewed as a national treasure.