Home: A Memoir of My Early Years - Julie Andrews

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Many know Andrews from The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. In this memoir, she looks back on her early years with an aspiring vaudeville mom and a loving dad and her role in Camelot with Richard Burton at age 20. b&w photos throughout. 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 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.