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A Memoir of My Early Years

De: Julie Andrews

Narrado por: Julie Andrews

The beloved Julie Andrews has captured our hearts on screen for decades, but she has never told the story of her life before fame—until now.

In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. Her memoir begins in 1935, when Julie was born to an aspiring vaudevillian mother and a teacher father, and takes readers to 1962, when Walt Disney himself saw her on Broadway and cast her as the world's most famous nanny.

Along the way, she weathered the London Blitz of World War II; her parents' painful divorce; her mother's turbulent second marriage to Canadian tenor Ted Andrews, and a childhood spent on radio, in music halls, and giving concert performances all over England. Julie's professional career began at the age of twelve, and in 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to participate in a Royal Command Performance before the Queen. When only eighteen, she left home for the United States to make her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend, and thus began her meteoric rise to stardom.

Home is filled with numerous anecdotes, including stories of performing in My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison on Broadway and in the West End, and in Camelot with Richard Burton on Broadway; her first marriage to famed set and costume designer Tony Walton, culminating with the birth of their daughter, Emma; and the call from Hollywood and what lay beyond.

Featuring over fifty personal photos—many never before seen—this is the personal memoir Julie Andrews' audiences have been waiting for.

Julie Andrews is magical

I may not be the most objective of readers as I adore Julie and love everything she does but I really enjoyed this and felt like I was on a journey together with her. Love it!

Thoroughly Enjoyable Memoir

10/10🌟- This is Julie’s first memoir, covering her childhood right up to her flight to Hollywood pre-Mary Poppins. I expected to hear about some early theatre shenanigans (and they are quite entertaining), but I was surprised at her candor regarding her far-from-perfect childhood, particularly her troubled relationship to her mother and stepfather. However, she narrates everything with such a collectedness, such grace about her---even in relaying some of her cheekier moments. It was also a nice change of pace from reading about some other well known actors who've come from wealthy families or who were already "Hollywood Royalty" from birth. (To be clear, I am not disparaging those people/their family and their stories can be just as interesting. I merely wish to make the point that it is a very different life with different problems and different lessons learned.) I am thoroughly looking forward to reading her follow-up memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years!

Beautiful book

Thank you for taking us on the early years of your journey. God bless you. Beautifully written and read and just fascinating. I’m now going to see if you have another book. I want more. :-) Thank you again.

Lovely

Lovely story of Julie ' s early life and career. I wanted it to continue to the present. Julie is a wonderful narrator. Definitely worth the purchase.

Just lovely!

So interesting to find out “how she became”, and even better being read by her!