Isy Suttie: Phyllis Pearsall, the A-Z woman who was right up my street
Isy Suttie has loved Phyllis Pearsall ever since she found out she wrote the London A-Z. But could she play her in a musical? The comedian relives a story of singing ducks and tear-stained pagesI got my first A-Z when I moved to London in the late 1990s and worked in bars in Soho. In no time at all, it was tremendously dog-eared and covered in stains: tea, lager, rain, tears. There was highlighter on most of the West…