Mrs P's Journey

MRS P''S JOURNEY is the enchanting story of Phyllis Pearsall. Born Phyllis Isobella Gross, her lifelong nickname was PIG. The artist daughter of a flamboyant Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and an Irish Italian mother, her bizarre and often traumatic childhood did not restrain her from becoming one of Britain''s most intriguing entrepreneurs and self-made millionaires.

After an unsatisfactory marriage...