From the Booker Prize-winner of `Offshore comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. With a new introduction by Simon Callow. n n n It is the 1960s, in Londons West End, and Freddie is the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School. Of unknown age and provenance, Freddie is a skirt-swathed enigma - a woman who by sheer force of character and single-minded thrust has turned herself and her school into a national institution. Anyone who is anyone must know Freddie. n n n At Freddies is a wickedly droll comedy of the theatre and its terminally eccentric devotees. n