The absolutely fabulous Joanna Lumley opens her private albums for this illustrated memoir.
Joanna Lumley was born in post-war Kasmir, the daughter of a major in the 6th Gurkha Rifles. Raised in the south of England, she is a former model and actress, best known for her roles in The New Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous and Sensitive Skin. Her recent credits include the stage play The Lion in Winter and Martin Scorsese's film The Wolf of Wall Street.Follow Joanna Lumley on Twitter at https://twitter.com/LumleyNews and visit the website http://absolutelyjoannalumley.freeforums.org.
There is a Joanna Lumley for everyone: there's beautiful angelic
Joanna, hot sexy Joanna, Kick-ass "Purdey" Joanna, heroic single
mum Joanna, comic genius Joanna and crusading Gurkha-saver Joanna.
And thanks to her habit of insanely hoarding everything from bales
of cloth to old wrapping paper, she has pictures of every
incarnation, which are lushly reproduced in her immensely fun
scrapbook-memoir, Absolutely.
*EVENING STANDARD*
Her beauty does not fade and her unquenchable spirit for adventure
seems more apparent than ever. Joanna Lumley is, for many,
something of a national treasure. In this new illustrated memoir,
we trot through her childhood in Kashmir...to her days of modelling
in the Swinging Sixties and her move into acting. Luckily for fans,
Lumley is a committed hoarder so there is a wealth of fantastic
photographs and press cuttings to feast upon.
*DAILY EXPRESS*
Mischievous and measured, Joanna Lumley gives us a remarkable
portrait of a groovy life...Lots of facts, little hyperbole and a
pervasive sense of self effacement, a very British talent for
understatement and self-deprecation and (and this, in an age of
vomit-into-the-void celebrity culture is perhaps what stands out
and pleases the most) restraint...that makes this such a refreshing
read...she gives us the facts - and photographs - from a life
astonishingly rich in experience.
*THE TIMES*
A full-page photograph at the begining of Joanna Lumley's glossy
memoir shows the nation's darling in full evening dress, wearing a
glittering tiara...crimson sash and gold star...The portrait
captures perfectly the mixture of poshness and larkiness that has
captivated Joanna Lumley's audiences...Tempting as it is to
concentrate on the wealth of photographs, it would be a pity to
ignore the linking text. Joanna writes beautifully, managing to be
both thoughtful and amusing.
*DAILY MAIL*
Lumley has done it all, from sex kitten and TV star to activist for
the Gurkhas. Read about it here.' - No.2 of The Independent's 'Ten
Best New Memoirs
*INDEPENDENT*
An actress with an extraordinarily varied life that has taken her
from Kashmir to kent, from Bond girl to Ab Fab. It's all here in
this gloriously illustrated, entertaining memoir, that's packed
with personal photos and reminiscences.
*WOMAN & HOME*
Joanna Lumley's Absolutely is what Alan Sugar would probably call
"a breath of fresh air in a world full of c***". Like Winner and
Sugar, she has published memoirs before, and so this is a picture
book, with words - thousands of pictures of Lumley as a child, a
model, an actress, and as her dark ego Patsy in Absolutely
Fabulous....She writes beautifully, too; unlike the authors above,
she does not scream into the Dictaphone but respects her readers
enough to compose sentences and read back over them when she has
finished.
*DAILY TELEGRAPH*
She's the glamorous age-defying star of stage and screen, who is
famous as Patsy from Ab Fab yet a passionate human rights
campaigner. But as her autobiography reveals, Joana's life has seen
her fight through poverty and being a single mum
*BEST*
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