Emma Brockes reviews Julie Andrews' Home: A Memoir of My Early Years in the International Herald Tribune:
"Julie Andrews's memoir is full of crisp locutions like 'poor unfortunate' and 'banished to the scullery' and 'trivet,' a characteristically precise term that the dictionary defines as 'an iron tripod placed over a fire for a cooking pot or kettle to stand on.' It opens with a soppy poem she wrote about England, but what follows is a decisively unsoppy account of a typically dismal English childhood, complete with cramped lodgings and brutish relatives, which Andrews tells briskly and without self-pity."
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"There are occasional flashes of the piety that some later found so annoying. … And when she gets going on how marvelous the royal family is, she sounds like an emissary for the English Tourist Board. But most of the book is painfully shrewd and written with real delicacy and pathos."
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Andrews' book comes to a halt when the actress leaves England for Hollywood to star in Mary Poppins.
In the same article, Brockes also reviews Richard Stirling's Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography.
For those living on the Westside (of Los Angeles), Julie Andrews will be signing books at Borders in Westwood at 7 p.m. on April 10.
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I'm doing a project on Julie Andrews. This book halped a lot!
i was there! being a huge Julie Andrew's fan we camped out all night. it was a lot of fun and Julie was just what you expect her to be. Lovely, elegant, and very nice!!
It's always interesting to find out about the upbringing of people in the public eye. It's also very cool that she's doing a book signing; I wish I was in LA too! That would be quite the photo op.
I wish I was in Los Angeles. Julie Andrews is my favorite film star.