Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years is a best-selling memoir
written by Julie Andrews
. It was published on April 1, 2008 by Hyperion
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Home tells the story of Julie Andrews' life up until 1963, when she left England
for Hollywood to shoot Mary Poppins
and is intended as part one of a two part memoir. While it includes dark childhood memories of surviving the London Blitz and attempts by her step father to molest her , the book overall presents a happy vision of Andrews' childhood. She has said in an interview that the book The Little Gray Men and her dad were her inspirations and source of influence as an author, along with Dickens among other authors.
The book received a generally positive critical reception. The Los Angeles Times
described it as "immensely readable" and The New York Times
praised the quality of the prose. Home was #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List
of non-fiction
adult titles on April 27 2008.
Memoir
A memoir , is a literary genre, forming a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir set out below...
written by Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors...
. It was published on April 1, 2008 by Hyperion
Hyperion (publisher)
Hyperion Books is a general-interest book publishing part of the Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1991. Hyperion publishes general-interest fiction and non-fiction books for adults under the following imprints: ABC Daytime Press, ESPN Books,...
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Home tells the story of Julie Andrews' life up until 1963, when she left England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
for Hollywood to shoot Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (film)
Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...
and is intended as part one of a two part memoir. While it includes dark childhood memories of surviving the London Blitz and attempts by her step father to molest her , the book overall presents a happy vision of Andrews' childhood. She has said in an interview that the book The Little Gray Men and her dad were her inspirations and source of influence as an author, along with Dickens among other authors.
The book received a generally positive critical reception. The Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
described it as "immensely readable" and The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
praised the quality of the prose. Home was #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List
New York Times Best Seller list
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. It is published weekly in The New York Times Book Review magazine, which is published in the Sunday edition of The New York Times and as a stand-alone publication...
of non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...
adult titles on April 27 2008.