This Much is True
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4.3 • 10 Ratings
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- $41.99
Publisher Description
From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is the outspoken great aunt (after two sherries) we all wish we had -- this is (at last) her extraordinary life story and it's well worth the wait.
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY
Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure.
Now, at last, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story. And it's far richer and stranger than any part she's played.
Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John aged 17, being sent to Coventry by Monty Python and the Goodies and swearing on University Challenge (she was the first woman to say F*** on TV). This book is packed with unforgettable stories from why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had to being told off by the Queen. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as she is.
(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Customer Reviews
A companion in a dark time
This book with the wonderful narration got me through a very difficult time in my life, for which I am so grateful. Thank you, Miriam, for being so very much yourself. Xx
Egotistical Journey
I was enjoying this book to a point, it was, however more like a CV of her achievements. I felt that she believes the world should revolve around her.
I stopped reasing half way through for two reasons, I felt that she was very promiscuous and her ludicrous behaviour on sets was distasteful.
Her views on the British Commonwealth and Brixit I found again no necessary to comment and out of order to call voters for it as imbecile.
I hoped the book would be funny, sadly I found it tasteless