They checked out the available movies and Granddaughter decided she wanted to see Mrs Harris Goes to Paris. Yes I am – also a movie trail of You’ve Got Mail, which I can’t wait for – it’s what first made me desperate to live in New York! These dollars, the client thinks, are being sent to Mrs Harris’s ‘conveniently invented’, ‘constitutionally impecunious’ nephew, who lives in America. COMING IN 2022 – the feel-good classic will be a major film, starring Leslie Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs and Lucas Bravo’Mrs Harris is one of the great creations of fiction – so real that you feel you know her, yet truly magical as well.

In New York, the French Count re-appears and, again, all but one or two characters reveal hidden hearts. Mrs Harris is a wonderful heroine who you’ll be rooting for all the way, and Paul Gallico manages to weave stories that have a moral heart without being saccharine or twee. The Albert Bridge and that beautiful crescent in Belgravia are both the real thing, and so is the pub where they go—the exterior is in London, you can’t find that anywhere else.Now dressed in demure, expensive white, she lambasts the woman who'd previously looked down on her in her thigh-high boots. Ada Harris, a sixty-ish London charwoman, as she embarks on a quest to purchase a Dior dress after she is enamored with one she sees in a client’s cupboard.

Harris has little idea of how her life is about to be turned upside down and how many other lives she will transform forever. In the Paris book, an ageing char lady decides she wants a Dior dress and makes a lot of friends and changes lives along the way. He graduated in 1921 with a Bachelor of Science degree, having lost a year and a half due to World War I. Mrs Harris goes to Paris introduces the indomitable, apple cheeked char lady Mrs Harris, a Londoner of a certain age who ‘does’ for the wealthy residents of Belgravia (this is the area between Sloane Square, Hyde Park and Knightsbridge, by the way – think wide roads of tall white stucco houses and private garden squares that nobody apart from the very wealthy could ever hope to afford).The production won three UK Theatre Awards: Best Design ( Lez Brotherston), Best Performer in a Musical ( Clare Burt in the titular role) and Best Musical Production.