Many know Andrews from The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. -- Time In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years , Julie Andrews 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..
Andrews comes across as plainspoken, guilelessly charming and resoundingly tough. . . --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Frank and fascinating .
Andrews is an accomplished writer who holds back nothing while adding a patina of poetry to the antics and anecdotes throughout this Memoir of bittersweet backstage encounters and theatrical triumphs. . . --Entertainment Weekly A delightful remembrance of her own childhood, and an engrossing prelude to her cinematic career .
In warmly nostalgic later chapters, the book begins to glow. . . --The New York Times Book Review Home reflects the very qualities that first made the working-class English singer a star 45 Years ago: intelligence, gentle humor, and a clear, sweet, surprisingly powerful voice . -- People Painfully shrewd, and written with real delicacy and pathos.
A frank, intriguing memoir. b&w photos throughout.
In this memoir, she looks back on her Early Years with an aspiring vaudeville mom and a loving dad and her role in Camelot with Richard Burton at age 20.
Many know Andrews from The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins
