Managing Expectations, Minnie Driver
Managing Expectations, Minnie Driver
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Managing Expectations
A Memoir in Essays

Author: Minnie Driver

Narrator: Minnie Driver

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/03/2022

Synopsis

A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn’t.In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and Barbados; her post-university travails and triumphs—from being the only student in her acting school not taken on by an agent to being discovered at a rave in a muddy field in the English countryside; shooting to fame in one of the most influential films of the 1990s and being nominated for an Academy Award; and finding the true light of her life, her son. She chronicles her unconventional career path, including the time she gave up on acting to sell jeans in Uruguay, her journey as a single parent, and the heartbreaking loss of her mother. Like Lena Dunham in Not That Kind of Girl, Gabrielle Union in We’re Going to Need More Wine and Patti Smith in Just Kids, Driver writes with razor-sharp humor and grace as she explores navigating the depths of failure, fighting for success, discovering the unmatched wonder and challenge of motherhood, and wading through immeasurable grief. Effortlessly charming, deeply funny, personal, and honest, Managing Expectations reminds us of the way life works out—even when it doesn’t.Also included at the end of this audiobook is a conversation between Minnie Driver her friend Emma Forrest.

About Minnie Driver

Minnie Driver is an English and American actress, singer, and songwriter whose films include Circle of Friends, GoldenEye, Big Night, Grosse Pointe Blank, Sleepers, Ella Enchanted, The Phantom of the Opera, and most recently, the Amazon Original film Cinderella. For her role as Skylar in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting, she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also starred in several television series, including The Riches, for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, Speechless, Will and Grace, and Amazon’s Modern Love. She has also recorded three albums, Everything I’ve Got in My Pocket , Seastories, and Ask Me To Dance all of which received considerable critical acclaim. She lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Claire on May 20, 2022

Charming and moving and very well written, this memoir by the actress (and musician) Minnie Driver is a series of ten essays which start in childhood when she is an unhappy boarder at her school in Hampshire (not too far from where I live), and finish with the poignant and wise (without being sentim......more

Goodreads review by Mediaman on August 29, 2022

This celebrity's guardedness and walls are way up as we learn very little about Minnie Driver in a disappointing autobiography that only gives glimpses of her life story. There are just 5 or 6 real stories within, the rest of it being small thoughts about different times of her life with few specifi......more

Goodreads review by Aoife on November 30, 2022

Minnie Driver's Managing Expectations was recommended by many trusted book friends and it's a well-written and at times, very entertaining book, if not particularly insightful. I listened to the audiobook which is narrated by Driver herself. I liked parts of it a lot - particularly the last essay ab......more

Goodreads review by Beth on December 30, 2022

I always want grown-ups to like me but find it difficult to behave in a way that seems to consistently please them. Grown-up love appears to be very conditional, and they are not conditions I can really abide by - not for long, anyway. One minute they’re laughing at the fact that I know what “exi......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on June 05, 2022

TITLE: Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays AUTHOR: Minnie Driver PUB DATE: 05.03.2022 Now Available A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn’t. REVIEW: I am a fan of......more

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