Stage and screen star Alison Steadman will publish a book about her life next October.

The as yet untitled book will follow her life from growing up in Liverpool, to moving to London, and finding fame in the mid 1970s.

She received Bafta nominations for The Singing Detective and  Fat Friends, where she worked alongside  Gavin & Stacey co-creator, James Corden.

Steadman went on to play Pam in the much-loved BBC comedy.

Speaking about the book, she said: “As a daft and enthusiastic 21-year-old, I eagerly rushed into the theatre bar after my first professional performance, threw my arms in the air and offered the otherwise engaged crowd my best impression of the legendary comedian Stanley Baxter’s catchphrase – and this is the real me!

“Thinking about that moment recently, it struck me that I’ve spent over 50 years playing at being other people – girlfriends, lovers, wives, mothers and grandmothers and yet throughout the high and lows of all these other women’s lives, I’ve managed to sustain my own two loves, my family and being an actress, and still be me, still daft and enthusiastic.”