One unusual Christmas tradition in the Millican household involved music. Sarah’s dad worked at the local pit and every Christmas morning the colliery band would play outside her house.

Sarah Millican reads from her frank and funny memoir. In her late twenties, in the aftermath of a divorce, Sarah discovered she had a talent for writing and performing comedy.

She was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2006 Chortle Awards and won the best newcomer if.comedy award at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe with her debut show, Sarah Millican's Not Nice. The same show was ...