Molly Parkin personified 60s London. The award-winning, legendary fashion editor for Nova, Harpers & Queen and the Sunday Times, she set up her own boutique off the King's Road, opened her own bistro in Chelsea. She enjoyed enduring friendships with Zandra Rhodes and Barbara Hulanicki for whom she made hats at BIBA. In the '70s, she began writing her hugely popular series of ten bestselling comic erotic novels, starting with Love All. She was the Soho drinking companion of the artist Francis Bacon, and lover to James Robertson Justice, John Mortimer, George Melly, Bo Diddley and a host of others. Indefatigable, exuberant and insightful, Molly has celebrated life like no one else. But beneath this outward fearlessness and joie de vivre lay a dark and frightening childhood. Molly has never spoken of such matters until now, and in Welcome to Mollywood she achieves something quite extraordinary: she reveals the source of her anguish in chilling and eloquent prose, and yet never lets the reader feel anything but love and admiration and joy. Molly's beautifully crafted memoir, going back to her wartime childhood in London and the refuge from her own family which she found with her grandparents back in Wales, sees her approaching her 80th year with none of her passion dimmed. Life may be different now: her challenges include kleptomaniac mice who make off with her dentures in the middle of the night; her sensual passions are sometimes satisfied by her sister's butterscotches rather than by the great men of the day. But she never misses an opportunity to regale the reader with gleeful accounts of a life so well lived, and in doing so she has adroitly fashioned her very own manifesto for a glorious old age.