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'A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving'
- Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt' 'Vital,
heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with
humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton 'A wonderful
memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled
it up in one joyous sitting.' - Elizabeth Day 'An absolute jewel of
a book. Gloriously readable, hilarious, painful, acute, sharply
recalled and vividly brought to life' - Stephen Fry A dazzling
'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from
the life of actor Minnie Driver. I love stories. I have mostly told
other people's but now, in telling my own, I realize how all our
stories are connected by that great leveller of acclaim, loss,
fortitude, and fortune: being human. When I look at my life from
the alleged halfway point, some patterns are revealed: one, that
the story does not necessarily begin or end where it should; two,
happy endings are overrated. And three, happy endings are almost
never the end. This book is memoir-ish. A tell-most. Largely
because there's a lot I don't remember, and a lot that's not worth
talking about. So, this is a collection of stories about how things
not working out - worked out in the end. How reaching for the dream
is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream
itself coming true. I really hope you enjoy it. Love, Minnie x
A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny
scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver. Managing Expectations
is a collection of delicately crafted, hilarious and heartfelt
essays, described as a 'tell-most', in which Minnie Driver uses her
formidable storytelling skills to examine and understand her
less-than-ordinary life. Suffused with warmth and humour, Minnie
shares poignant, candid and honest stories of her unconventional
childhood, the shock of fame, motherhood, love, success, failure,
the power of sisterly love, and the loss of her beloved mother. In
her own words, it's about how things not working out actually
worked out in the end, and how reaching for the dream is easily
more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream itself
coming true. 'When I was six, I wrote my first short essay, about
how when I grew up, I wanted to be a farmer's daughter. My dad
worked in insurance. Now, though, I realise how apt that ambition
was. It set up a template in my life of wanting something
impossible to become true. How in trying to make something
impossible happen, and failing repeatedly, other things happened.
Things that became my life. A life I love, because it was made with
so many holes that I enjoy filling in.'
'A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving'
- Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt' 'Vital,
heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with
humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton 'A wonderful
memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled
it up in one joyous sitting.' - Elizabeth Day 'An absolute jewel of
a book. Gloriously readable, hilarious, painful, acute, sharply
recalled and vividly brought to life' - Stephen Fry A dazzling
'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from
the life of actor Minnie Driver. I love stories. I have mostly told
other people's but now, in telling my own, I realize how all our
stories are connected by that great leveller of acclaim, loss,
fortitude, and fortune: being human. When I look at my life from
the alleged halfway point, some patterns are revealed: one, that
the story does not necessarily begin or end where it should; two,
happy endings are overrated. And three, happy endings are almost
never the end. This book is memoir-ish. A tell-most. Largely
because there's a lot I don't remember, and a lot that's not worth
talking about. So, this is a collection of stories about how things
not working out - worked out in the end. How reaching for the dream
is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream
itself coming true. I really hope you enjoy it. Love, Minnie x
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