An evening with Rachael Stirling

Legendary actress Diana Rigg was a force to be reckoned with. Her 50+ year, multi-award-winning career included everything from the iconic smart-talking, cat-suited Emma Peel in The Avengers to being the only Bond girl 007 ever married, to iconic stage performances in Mother Courage, Jumpers and Medea and unforgettable TV appearances in Detectorists (in which Rachael played her daughter) and as Lady Tyrell in Game of Thrones. Perhaps you’ve never heard of Diana Rigg. That doesn’t matter, for in these pages I intend to conjure her up in all her glory, and I promise you will feel as if you knew her for all eighty-two of her glorious years on Earth. Her story, her outlook, her legacy, is a lesson in living this life to the fullest: in following your instincts, in taking pleasure wherever there is pleasure to be taken, in loving with all your strength and might, in laughing, always at yourself first, and in being curious, now and forever.