Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
"A frank, intriguing 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,...
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"A frank, intriguing 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
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780786884759 (0786884754)
Publisher: Hachette Books
Pages no: 325
Edition language: English
I Picked Up This Book Because: Saw it in the library and was curious. The Story: This depicts Julie’s life up until she heads to LA to film Mary Poppins. I must say I was disappointed not to get the details of her time on set of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music as these were the two titles I wa...
I enjoyed this very much. True, it doesn't cover that part of Julie Andrews' career which is the most familiar to me (the films, of course), ending as it does just as she is about to leave for Hollywood to make Mary Poppins. Nonetheless, the account of her unsettled childhood in a vaudeville family,...