This Much is True, Miriam Margolyes
This Much is True, Miriam Margolyes
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This Much is True
'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL

Author: Miriam Margolyes

Narrator: Miriam Margolyes

Unabridged: 15 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 09/16/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

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.

'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY

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*** 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.

(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Miriam Margolyes

Born in Oxford, England in 1941 & educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, MIRIAM MARGOLYES OBE is an award-winning veteran of the stage and screen, and an internationally acclaimed voice-artist and documentarian. Winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award for The Age of Innocence, she received an OBE in 2002 for Services to Drama. This Much is True, her long-awaited award-winning autobiography, was in the top ten for over a year.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on October 04, 2021

It should 3.5 stars maybe. It's odd isn't it, that when you've enjoyed someone's work and see their autobiography, you'd think you'd love it. I'm afraid it put me off reading any more about Ms Margolyes. The fact that she won't care what I think is just fine. I know she loves talking about sex and li......more

Goodreads review by Colin on February 16, 2025

Ah, Miriam Margolyes, like many I know you so well from your Graham Norton interviews and travel documentaries. You have a way of approaching and interviewing people from all walks of life, drawing out so much from them. You can often get away with talking dirty and swearing. I’m glad to hear it’s no......more

Goodreads review by Emma on September 16, 2021

Any fans of Miriam know this is going to be an absolute hoot and it really is. My first laugh out loud moment was page 2 and this continued at odd funny moments throughout. Great insight into her university time, her radio work, voiceover. I suspect most of us will pick this up to see what on earth......more

Goodreads review by Flo on October 10, 2024

I'm not a big fan of memoirs or non-fiction in general, and as someone from outside the UK, I didn't really know who Miriam Margolyes is. I knew her from two movies: The Age of Innocence and Harry Potter. It seems I've seen her in more than that, and as a cinephile, I enjoyed the gossip about Barbra......more

Goodreads review by Mark on September 20, 2021

I love Miriam. I saw her interview with Graham Norton, and listened to her appearance on Louis Theroux’s wonderful podcast and I worried that she might have shared all her best stories already, but this was so enjoyable and so well written and there were *so* many more stories. And to hear it read b......more

Quotes

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 Observer

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 Daily Telegraph

Reads like the Wife of Bath's memoirs

Wickedly honest . . . When I was reading this book on a train, a stranger asked if I was OK because I was crying with laughter Guardian

An irreverent, straight-talking, riotous romp through an extraordinary life Sunday Post

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 Daily Mirror

Now 80 - and no less outrageous and outspoken, the actress presents vignettes from her life that will induce guffaws as much as gasps The i

Blisteringly honest and hugely entertaining Daily Record

Ebullient and bosomy The 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 Radio Times

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