TITLE: Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
AUTHOR: Julie Andrews
PUBLISHER: Hachette Books
RELEASE DATE: January 1, 2008
GENRE: Nonfiction, Memoir
–People “Painfully shrewd, and written with real delicacy and pathos.”
–The New York Times Book Review “Home reflects the very qualities that first made the working-class English singer a star 45 years ago: intelligence, gentle humor, and a clear, sweet, surprisingly powerful voice . . . In warmly nostalgic later chapters, the book begins to glow.”
–Entertainment Weekly “A delightful remembrance of her own childhood, and an engrossing prelude to her cinematic career . . . Andrews is an accomplished writer who holds back nothing while adding a patina of poetry to the antics and anecdotes throughout this memoir of bittersweet backstage encounters and theatrical triumphs.”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Frank and fascinating . . . Andrews comes across as plainspoken, guilelessly charming and resoundingly tough.”
–Time In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie Andrews takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. (Description from Goodreads)
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