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This Much is True

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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

Critics Review

Gleefully outspoken and bursting with hilarious anecdotes, gloriously larger than life . . . I pity every person that is not me right now, drinking in the glory of Margolyes at 80
Observer
Startling, thrillingly outspoken, provocative, potty-mouthed and exhilarating . . . THIS MUCH IS TRUE is never boring. Her personality is so likeable she can only leave you wanting more
Daily Telegraph
Reads like the Wife of Bath's memoirs
Simon Callow
Wickedly honest . . . When I was reading this book on a train, a stranger asked if I was OK because I was crying with laughter
Guardian
An irreverent, straight-talking, riotous romp through an extraordinary life
Sunday Post
If there is a silver lining to last year's lockdown, it's the fact that Miriam Margolyes finally had time to write her life story . . . invigoratingly outspoken . . . gloriously shocking . . . and captures her force-of-nature personality. Buckle up, you're in for a wild ride
Daily Mirror
Now 80 - and no less outrageous and outspoken, the actress presents vignettes from her life that will induce guffaws as much as gasps
The i
Blisteringly honest and hugely entertaining
Daily Record
Ebullient and bosomy
The Times
Stories galore . . . Miriam Margolyes has a life worth immortalising in print . . . An unapologetic account of a life well lived. As irrepressible as ever, Margolyes's warmth and wit shines through
Radio Times
There's so much in the book; each chapter offering a tidbit of information both interesting and hilarious... It's full of life and vigour, as if you're conversing with a friend you've known for a long time
Irish Examiner
Brilliant stories abound in this memoir... which is honest, poignant and wildly indiscreet.
The Guardian
As compelling, forthright and irrepressible as its author
Choice Magazine
Miriam Margolyes' autobiography is crass, brash, rude, crude, funny and sad, and as delightful and surprising as Miriam herself
Good Housekeeping
As outrageously entertaining as you'd expect
Daily Express
Potty-mouthed and thrillingly candid, Margolyes's account of her career from teenage nude
modelling for Augustus John to sexy voiceover work for Ann Summers to playing Harry Potter's Professor Sprout is a riotous joy
Daily Telegraph
There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and shockingly candid stories.
DAILY MAIL
Unstoppably ebullient and rollicking
THE TIMES

User Reviews

Book 4.5
Narration 4.6
Author Miriam Margolyes
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 15 hours and 7 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529379921
Format Audiobook
Publisher John Murray Press
Genre Biography: general, Film, television, radio genres: Comedy and humour, Memoirs
Collections Laugh Out Loud
Availability AU, GB, IE, US
Rating
4.5 (23 reviews)
Narration
4.6 (23 reviews)

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