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The new book, focusing on her years in Hollywood, is a follow-up to her 2008 release, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years.
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group will release Julie Andrews‘ second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, October 15.
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The new memoir picks up where the first left off: just as Andrews was preparing to film Mary Poppins, a performance that would win her an Academy Award and propel her into being a film star and household name. Home Work will chronicle Andrews’ long screen career, which included such films as The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria, and, more recently, The Princess Diaries.
Andrews co-wrote Home Work with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton.
The mother-and-daughter team have previously penned more than 30 books for children, including The Very Fairy Princess and Dumpy series, The Great American Mousicle, and Little Bo.
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Home, the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences, and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria and many others.
In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage. In her new memoir, Home Work, Julie picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her astonishing rise to fame as two of her early films — Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music — brought her instant and enormous success, including an Oscar. It was the beginning of a career that would make Julie Andrews an icon to millions the world over.
In Home Work, Julie describes her years in Hollywood-from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she detail her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television; she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, moving on from her first marriage, embracing two step-children, adopting two more children, and falling in love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked together in numerous films, culminating in Victor/Victoria, the gender-bending comedy that garnered multiple Oscar nominations.
Told with her trademark charm and candor, Home Work takes us on a rare and intimate journey into an astonishing life that is funny, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
Released in UK September 5 2019
Released in US October 15 2019
Also out as audio book!
Will be posting more news when we hear it.
