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Spare

By: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
Narrated by: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Sunday Times Memoir of the Year 2023

It was one of the images of the twentieth century: two boys, walking behind the coffin of their mother, Princess Diana. Billions wondered what the princes must be feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on.

For Harry, this is that story at last.


Before then, Prince Harry was known as the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. But grief changed everything.

At twenty-one, he joined the Army but was soon more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn't find true love.

Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple's romance and wedding. But in the face of sustained press intrusion, Harry saw no other way to protect his wife and children than to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try had been his mother. . .

Written with raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is full of insight, revelation and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

'Compellingly artful... a blockbuster memoir' The New Yorker

'The most insightful royal book in a generation' Financial Times

'A rattling page-turner... As a personal insight into one boy's life in an extraordinary spotlight, it may never be better' Sunday Times

©2023 Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Critic reviews

Unflinching, introspective and well-written
The most insightful royal book in a generation
This is an extraordinary and important book
Richly detailed… beautifully written
Compellingly artful… [a] blockbuster memoir
A triumph
Honest, insightful and vulnerable
A fast-paces, quickfire account… the book crackles like a burning log
All stars
Most relevant
This is a beautiful account, As someone who lost their mother when I was 8 I understand the massive change, the sadness, the depression, the loneliness at times as well as the reoccurrence of mourning, the longing and the admittance of forgetting some things due to the young age. It has been heart-wrenching witnessing the demonisation of Harry and Meghan from the media as well as the royals and this book is cathartic response to provide a peak through his life experience, as a son, as a royal, as a grandson, as a husband and most importantly as a father and individual.

This is important, this book was needed, it has an openness, good writing (and yes everyone does use a ghostwriter) however this is for content, this is his account, ‘this is why’ as he puts it. It is a good listen, emotionally read, filled with honesty, even more than expected and with scattered jokes (did laugh at the competing baldness one… ).

Thank you to Harry for bringing your experience to light. Have watched you grow, to become a strong person. Thank you for sharing with such vulnerability and touching on the experience of losing a Mother and awareness of Racism especially as a Black woman this has meant a lot. Know you, Meg and the kids are supported. Bun the media, and in the words of the great poetess Shens. ‘They cyaan tell you weh fi do’. I’m sure Diana would be proud!

A great listen, We are with you!

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I love the book. Well worth the wait. Beautifully read by Prince Harry. A most read book.

Fabulous

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Great insight into Harry’s history and issue with royal family. Obviously in hindsight he had to flee that family. Take care harry, you and your immediate family will be missed.

Everything I love about harry

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very good never knew you was classed as a spare until I heard this audiobook always knew the press and paparazzi we're racist

better off out of it

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I loved every moment of the book, he really is the best royal out of them all.

THE TEA IS HOT

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