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I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

The Celebrity Traitors Star Reveals the Lessons She’s Learned in Her Story to Joy

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I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

By: Miranda Hart
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Connection and laughter and joy are everything. To meet someone and just play and laugh – it’s all us humans need. I’ve had times in my life when I haven’t had that, through illness, and finding it again has brought back my silly, sensitive soul.

‘One of the most inspiring and comforting books I’ve ever read’ *****

‘The kindness and compassion in this book will change how you speak to yourself and others’ *****

‘Everyone should read this book. I cannot recommend it enough’ *****

‘I cried from beginning to end. Sometimes this book is sad, sometimes just plain funny’ *****

‘Miranda’s wit shines through even on her darkest days. This book is a must’ *****

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Hello to you! You may have heard that I have had an unexpectedly difficult decade – there have been surprising joys, but also deep revelations and challenging lows.

I shall be honest about those, because what I discovered in the difficult times were my, what I call, treasures.

Treasures – practical tools, values, ways, answers researched from some great scientists, neuroscientists, therapists, sociologists (all the ‘ists’) out there, that have genuinely led to a sense of freedom, joy, peace and physical recovery I never would have thought possible.

If you fancy having a read, then I hope my story might help your story. After all, we are in this beautiful, mysterious, challenging life together.

Rest assured there are funny stories along the way – we will have a laugh too, my dear reader chum.

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MORE RAVE REVIEWS FOR I HAVEN'T BEEN ENTIRELY HONEST WITH YOU

'Miranda's account of slowly letting her guard down and being vulnerable is moving. Her book is proof that happiness is possible even in the most trying times' Guardian

'Warm, funny, insightful and kind' Elizabeth Day

'Raw and poignant. Miranda is more of an everywoman than ever before' The Times

'Joyous. Taking us affectionately by the hand, Miranda takes us through her ten-year journey to deep self-knowledge' Daily Mail

‘A wonderful book, filled with treasure’ Julia Samuel


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Editorial Review

Finding freedom, joy, peace, and fun with Miranda Hart
It was a few years ago that I binge-watched several seasons of the long-running British TV series Call the Midwife, and Camilla “Chummy” Noakes (played my Miranda Hart) quickly became a character who felt like a friend. Hampered by acute shyness, Chummy was nonetheless an adept midwife (if I were to have a baby in a London tenement, I’d want her by my side). Similarly, I welcome the sage advice offered by Hart in this revealing, informative, and very funny memoir. It’s prescriptive in the most useful of ways. She shares the “treasures” she’s collected—practical tools learned from scientists, neuroscientists, therapists, and sociologists that have helped her to heal physically and emotionally. She’s done the work and is here to help us, her fans, navigate our own journeys to health. — Tricia F., Audible Editor

Critic reviews

A raw and poignant account. Miranda is more of an everywoman than ever before
A bombshell, moving, inspirational. Hart passes on the tips that helped her emerge from psychological as much as physical doldrums. No comedian, female or male, has been so taken to the nation’s bosom since Victoria Wood
A wonderful book, filled with treasure
The wisest, kindest, bravest, most forgiving and generous book. A manual for gentleness
Wonderfully optimistic
Irrepressible and joyous. Taking us affectionately by the hand, Miranda takes us through her ten-year journey to deep self-knowledge. Along the way she picks up treasures, smashes old patterns of behaviour, and works out a code for how to live and what life's priorities should be. She describes memorable escapades from her past and can't repress her inner funniest girl in the dorm self
Packed with optimism and wisdom
Miranda's account of slowly letting her guard down and being vulnerable is sweet and moving, and proof that happiness is possible even in the most trying times
A memoir and a guide for those in a similar scenario, or indeed anyone feeling crushed and exhausted by modern life
This book is a real gem for therapists to recommend to clients. A rich introduction to some of the best self-help strategies from a trusted and much-loved icon. All the more powerful to read how Miranda discovered them via her own health crises; a painful read were it not softened by her comedic take on life's trials.
All stars
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This book has calmed me down, and made me smile. So much fun (and useful scientific information). A masterpiece.

Such beautiful words

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it's nice to reinforce these positives but then what's different about this book Vs others

a bit disappointed

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I found this book to be honest, raw and encouraging. I too am a Christian who lives with Chronic fatigue and have experienced so much of her story and subsequent thoughts.

I found Miranda’s deep dive into the psychology of suffering, with her honest reflections to be insightful and frankly refreshingly novel. So many self help books highlight the need for a change of mindset and that’s all well and good, but how to get there is another thing entirely. Miranda teaches freedom and finding your true self, but also acknowledges the fragility of life and how she has fallen and easily relapsed into old ways of thinking.

I will be re-listening immediately to this book and will then take some notes on the key teachings and practical tools she’s found helpful. For example the ‘why’ questioning concept is a game changer!

If you’re struggling to move past your past mindset or know someone who is, then this book will deliver. It’s honest and exposing, which is very brave for someone in the public eye, but nothing is wasted because she has found freedom and with her encouragement-so can we.

Also-she’s found love and I couldn’t be more happy for her. She’s the friend we all wish to have and her ‘Bristol boy’ is a very fortunate man.

A book enthusing freedom within the confines of chronic illness

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Part memoir part self help book, and what a brilliant book it is! I couldnt put it down and listened to it over two days on holiday. I don't have a chronic illness, but even so this book resonated with me so so much....maybe its being a fellow 6ft highly sensitive introverted person! I'm tempted to go out and buy the paper version so I can go through at highlight all of the bits that I know I'll want the refer back to and remind myself of again and again.

Loved This

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A brilliant book by a brilliant person. Very insightful and thought provoking. Thank you Miranda ❤️

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