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This Much is True

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16th September 2021

Price: £20

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Selected: Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781529379884

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‘There is no one on earth quite so wonderful’ STEPHEN FRY

‘As outrageously entertaining as you’d expect’ Daily Express

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury’s Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation’s favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story – and it’s well worth the wait.

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 as a teenager; why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she’s ever had; and what happened next after Warren Beatty asked ‘Do you fuck?’

From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave to being told to be quiet by the Queen, this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious stories. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its inimitable author.

Reviews

DAILY MAIL
There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and shockingly candid stories.
Eva Wiseman, Observer
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
Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph
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
Simon Callow
Reads like the Wife of Bath's memoirs
Roger Lewis, THE TIMES
Unstoppably ebullient and rollicking
Hadley Freeman, Guardian
Wickedly honest . . . When I was reading this book on a train, a stranger asked if I was OK because I was crying with laughter
IRISH EXAMINER
Beautifully written...interesting and hilarious... full of life and vigour... [reads] as if you're conversing with a friend
Sunday Post
An irreverent, straight-talking, riotous romp through an extraordinary life
Charlotte Heathcote, Daily Mirror
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
The i
Now 80 - and no less outrageous and outspoken, the actress presents vignettes from her life that will induce guffaws as much as gasps
Daily Record
Blisteringly honest and hugely entertaining
Roger Lewis, The Times
Ebullient and bosomy
Radio 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
Daily Record
Blisteringly honest and hugely entertaining
Irish Examiner
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
The Guardian
Brilliant stories abound in this memoir... which is honest, poignant and wildly indiscreet.
Choice Magazine
As compelling, forthright and irrepressible as its author
Good Housekeeping
Miriam Margolyes' autobiography is crass, brash, rude, crude, funny and sad, and as delightful and surprising as Miriam herself
Daily Express
As outrageously entertaining as you'd expect
Daily Telegraph
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