Impossible!

Name: Impossible!
Rating: 4.13 (218 reviews)

by Michelle Magorian Book 4 in the Hollis Family Books series.

First published 2014

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Josie Hollis enters a London stage school determined to become an actress, but the institution is more concerned with manners, appearance and commercial acceptability than with her talent. Moving between classes, auditions and the professional theatre, she encounters adults who try to narrow her ambitions and performers who show her how much discipline and resilience the stage demands.

The fourth Hollis Family novel carries the family story into the early 1960s, when older conventions of class and femininity still constrain young women even as British theatre and popular culture begin to change. Josie’s determination connects the artistic ambitions of earlier Hollis generations with a new period of opportunity, while refusing the idea that success requires her to become someone else.