Book info

• Title This Much is True
• Author Miriam Margolyes
• Year 2021
• Genre Memoir

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story - and it's well worth the wait. 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 as a teenager; why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had; and what happened next after Warren Beatty asked 'Do you fuck?' From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave to being told to be quiet by the Queen, this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious stories. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its inimitable author.

Thoughts

After watching Miriam on the Graham Norton Show, I realised I had the audiobook of her memoir tucked away so quickly started listening to it. Miriam talks with that trademark openness and honesty, littering the stories with frankness, swearing and shocking moments - but you know she doesn’t do it to be inciting, this is just her truth. It’s long, but it’s well read and fascinating from start to finish.

Rating: 3 / 5