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Patience in typical morning pose, ready to tackle the world - Credit: Patience Collier archive This is a glorious book about a loud, fearsome, eccentric and unpredictable actor and it has been written over seven years by a talented Norfolk author. Derek James talks to Vanessa Morton As you turn the pages, following the life and times of the extraordinary and brilliant Patience Collier, you wish who had met her. Mind you it could have ended in cross words. As Joanna Lumley says: “She had a tongue like a lash and a mind like a scythe.” One person who did know her was the award-winning Norwich author/biographer Vanessa Morton and her book called The Performer’s Tale: Nine Lives of Patience Collier is out this week.