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  • By: Joyce Grenfell
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  • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (42 ratings)
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Summary

Joyce Grenfell was known and loved all over the world for her monologues, her songs, and her comic writing. Her career, which spanned more than 30 years, saw her work in many different areas. From wartime entertainment tours to performances on radio, stage, and screen, all were graced with Joyce's usual charm, humour, and talent.

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.

©2000 BBC Worldwide Ltd; 1976 Joyce Grenfell (P)1989, 2000 BBC Worldwide Ltd

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Lovely

Such a warm and funny woman. A great tale told with liveliness and humour.

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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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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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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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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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absolutely fantastic

one of the best books I've read up to date. what a fabulous find indeed!

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