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This Much Is True

By: Miriam Margolyes
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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.

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--k 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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Miriam Margolyes (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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Wonderful. Surely the Audible book of the year

Who would ever want to read the printed version when you can enjoy Ms Margolyes perform it superbly for you? An absolute joy from start to finish.

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Just brilliant

What an amazing women and her fabulous and interesting life.
Best thing I've heard in a long while, felt gutted when it was over 😢.

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Truly Marvellous

Thoroughly enjoyed reading such a refreshingly honest account of one's life. Thank you for sharing your stories and reminding me that people and their stories are the glue which bind us together as a society.

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Totally loved this book! Especially the fact that Miriam herself read it - it held my attention from the first chapter to the last with much laughing and some tears along the way. Thank you Miriam....youre a star!

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Best Biography ever written

I laughed, I cried, I felt engaged and moved. Best biography I've ever listened too, and fallen in love with the person that is Miriam Margoyles

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Simply wonderful- that much is true.

Not just the words themselves, but the delivery of every sentence, kept me engaged and wanting more. Thank you.

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Miriam is a legend

Miriam margolyes is a true legend, she has lived a fascinating life and the story is funny and moving at the same time.

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Great book

Very enjoyable to listen to as
I found Miriams gentle tone a pleasure to listen to . A very interesting character and I love her honesty.

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50 + YEARS on my beautiful female list.

I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO READING THIS BOOK BUT DECIDED TO GET IT ON AUDIO BECAUSE MIRIAM NARRATES IT HERSELF IN HER PERFECT DICTION & THE FACT THAT NOBODY COULD DO IT BETTER THAN THE AUTHOR, CERTAINLY NOT IN MIRIAM'S PLACE.
I'D LOST TRACK OF MIRIAM FOR DECADES AFTER SEEING HER NARRATE ON JACKANORY WHEN I WAS 5 OR 6, UNTIL HER KICK UP THE EIGHTIES APPEARANCES IN THE 80'S, WITH HER FUTURE HARRY POTTER CO-STAR ROBBIE COLTRANE. A GREAT BOOK TO GET FOR YOUR FIRST AUDIO BOOK, HER VOICE NARRATING HER LIFE MAKES THE TEXT COME ALIVE WHEN TALKING ABOUT SMALL PERSONAL STORIES FROM HER LIFE, THAT ANYONE ELSE TELLING THE STORY WOULD FAIL TO CONVEY.
I CONSIDER MYSELF AS AN EXPERIENCED BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY READER AS I DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE, NOT FOR LAST FOUR DECADES,
MIRIAM ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE YOU'D LOVE TO MEET & JUST LISTEN TO TALKING, WITH THIS BOOK ON AUDIO YOU CAN!

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Such an interesting life

Honest and sincere
Don’t agree with all her beliefs but that is true of most of my friends
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narrated in such a personal way I feel I have been listening to a friend
I was so sorry it finished when she reached 80 but she candidly discussed all the issues of being a fat Jewish lesbian reaching old age and
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possible incontinence and her fear of dying
Highly recommend this book

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