From the back cover:

"Felicity Kendal began writing these richly entertaining and deeply honest memoirs at her father's bedside as he lay in a coma. As she moves hauntingly between the present and the past, Felicity Kendal recaptures her magical childhood in India, her complex relationship with her father and the rest of the family, her love affairs and the acting career that led to her being recognized as one of the outstanding actresses of her generation."

Picked up unregistered from the OBCZ shelves in the open public seating area of the Holgate building at York St. John University.

I'm registering it and planning to release it at this Tuesday evening's 'Colours'-themed BC Meetup - being held at The Brigantes in York from 7pm onwards...

releasing, as promised...

We enjoyed a trip into York to enjoy the Christmas lights and decorations this afternoon and I took the opportunity to swap a couple of BookCrossing books at the same time!
I chose this because, despite its being categorised as Mystery and Thrillers above, I believe these stories to be Memoirs and, as such, will count towards the two or three nonfictions I aim to read each month. Plus, I've long appreciated this actress's work :-) The Good Life, anyone . . . . ?

Memories of a lifetime in acting, including an unusual childhood spent touring Indian with her parents' Shakespearean (mostly) theatre company.
It jumps around in time, which gets a bit tiresome after a while. It's easy to keep track but it's not a writing style I appreciate. She starts writing as her father lies dying and ends, rather abruptly I thought, when he dies.
There are some odd quirks, for example she mentions her second husband but doesn't name him! I can understand a right to privacy but it does seem rather a weird detail to have omitted, especially when she tells us so much, although not all by any means, about her first husband and her relationship with Robert Bolt . . . .
OK but strange!
Note: The suspicious stain on the back pages has nothing to do with me!

Left on the shelves in the porch with the other fundraising books. Please be prepared to donate 50 pence or more to their current charity, Open Country, helping disabled people to access to countryside.

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