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Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure
- Narrated by: Joyce Grenfell
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
As she tells the story of her long and varied career, Joyce sketches wonderful comic descriptions of the many people encountered along the way. Her glamorous and madcap American mother, her aunt Nancy Astor, and her beloved husband Reggie are just some of the larger-than-life characters that people this captivating reading.
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- Eve Russell de Clifford
- 23-03-09
Lovely
Such a warm and funny woman. A great tale told with liveliness and humour.
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- M. Ponsonby
- 04-09-10
Joyce is a joy to listen to.
What a lovely story of her life. Her insight on her watching and listening in her early life has given her a wonderful basis for her monologues and songs. The introductory song on this book makes you want to dance, it is a waltz, with happiness. The words are lovely. I am just sorry I never saw her live.
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- Julie
- 13-08-16
Pure nostalgia
Most people who have heard of Joyce Grenfell know her from the old St Trinians films or the George, don't do that' nursery sketches. There is so much more as this memoir read by the author herself demonstrates. Joyce entertains with reminiscences of her Southern belle mother, Nancy Astor as an aunt, life between the wars, war time tours entertaining the groups and musical reviews. She has a real gift for storytelling.
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- Honest reader
- 24-10-23
Warm, charming, interesting & amusing
Joyce and her work was and remains all of the above. This half autobio (it finishes in the mid 1950s) also shows a little sharpness and a few surprising admissions that allow us to get a little closer to Joyce herself.
Gone too soon, if you ever chuckled at the nursery school teacher, without knowing much more of Joyce and her oevre, this ia a wonderful introduction.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-04-21
review of the year
an excellent read. Joyce Grenfell has a way of drawing you into her story and her life, which is both entertaining, personal and witty.
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- Ally
- 03-03-20
absolutely fantastic
one of the best books I've read up to date. what a fabulous find indeed!
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