Private Faces and Public Places, Sian Phillips
Private Faces and Public Places, Sian Phillips
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Private Faces and Public Places
The Autobiography

Author: Sian Phillips

Narrator: Sian Phillips

Unabridged: 26 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Sceptre

Published: 11/25/2021


Synopsis

The remarkably honest and brilliantly entertaining memoir of one of our finest acting Dames whose long and celebrated career includes her much-loved performance as Livia in I, Claudius and who was married for 20 years to the hell-raising Hollywood star Peter O'Toole.

Siân Phillips has a long and celebrated career on both stage and screen. For the first time, her two bestselling volumes of memoir Private Faces and Public Places will be available as a single volume with a brand new foreword by the author.

With wonderful stories and unflinching candour, Private Faces and Public Places covers her life from its beginnings in the remote Welsh countryside, where life hadn't changed for centuries, to finding herself at the epicentre of the acting world at its most glamorous alongside husband Peter O'Toole, whose career was about to take off with the spellbinding Lawrence of Arabia. Siân describes the mad and wonderfully impulsive times with O'Toole alongside the tempestuous, insecure, and often lonely periods in their marriage. Incredibly, it endures over 20 years.

When it ends, surprising even herself, she plunges straight into another marriage, with the much younger actor Robin Sachs. Emerging alone from her second marriage, triumphant and unrepentant, the story Siân tells ranks alongside the very best in show business.

(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Sian Phillips

Dame Siân Phillips was born in Glamorgan, Wales in 1933. Her long and illustrious acting career includes a starring turn as Livia in I, Claudius and Goodbye, Mr Chips, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She continues to appear regularly on both stage and screen, most recently in Strike (BBC One). She was made a Dame in 2016.


Reviews

PRIVATE FACES BY SIÂN PHILLIPS An evocative insight into growing up in Wales, and breaking free of the constraints of a rigid society. THE AUTHOR Stage, film and television actress Siân Phillips is probably best known for her role in I, Claudius, and for her marriage to the late actor Peter O’Toole. THE......more

Goodreads review by Nellie

This is a fascinating book. Dame Sîan Phillips has a fascinating life and writes in such a way that listening to it on Audible age could almost be in the car. It’s very descriptive and you can almost see the wardrobe and people she talks about.......more

Goodreads review by Ruth

Loved this! I started reading the book but when my sister recommended the audio book (narrated by Dame Siân herself) I quickly switched to that and what a pleasure it was to listen to her retelling her own story. Very well written, very entertaining- I thoroughly recommend this book.......more