Just a Mo: My Story

When your everyday life is filled with violence, drugs and strife, you can’t lose your head - you’ve just got to get on with it.;;Growing up in south-east London in the 1950s, Maureen ‘Mo’ Oldman - a.k.a. Laila Morse - was a million miles away from the celebrity world she would later inhabit as the queen of EastEnders. Life was hard - too hard to worry about what the future had to hold. Pregnant at seventeen, Laila soon had her hands full of troubles, and little inclination to go looking for more.;;But trouble has a way of tracking you down, no matter how old you get or what you’ve done with your life. Aged fifty, Laila gave acting a shot, taking on a role in her brother Gary’s film - which only happened to be the BAFTA-winning Nil by Mouth. It turned her whole world on its head.;;But success isn’t everything. Family is. Filled with bitter heartache - and hope - this is her amazing story.

The reigning queen of Albert Square, Laila Morse shares her incredible story for the first time. This is a book that will shock, humble and inspire.