About the Author

Born in Oxford, England in 1941 & educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, MIRIAM MARGOLYES OBE is an award-winning veteran of the stage and screen, and an internationally acclaimed voice-artist and documentarian. Winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award for The Age of Innocence, she received an OBE in 2002 for Services to Drama. This Much is True, her long-awaited award-winning autobiography, was in the top ten for over a year. This is her second book.

Reviews

Gleefully outspoken and bursting with hilarious anecdotes, gloriously larger than life . . . I pity every person that is not me right now, drinking in the glory of Margolyes at 80
*Observer*

Startling, thrillingly outspoken, provocative, potty-mouthed and exhilarating . . . THIS MUCH IS TRUE is never boring. Her personality is so likeable she can only leave you wanting more
*Daily Telegraph*

Reads like the Wife of Bath's memoirs
*Simon Callow*

Wickedly honest . . . When I was reading this book on a train, a stranger asked if I was OK because I was crying with laughter
*Guardian*

An irreverent, straight-talking, riotous romp through an extraordinary life
*Sunday Post*

If there is a silver lining to last year's lockdown, it's the fact that Miriam Margolyes finally had time to write her life story . . . invigoratingly outspoken . . . gloriously shocking . . . and captures her force-of-nature personality. Buckle up, you're in for a wild ride
*Daily Mirror*

Now 80 - and no less outrageous and outspoken, the actress presents vignettes from her life that will induce guffaws as much as gasps
*The i*

Blisteringly honest and hugely entertaining
*Daily Record*

Ebullient and bosomy
*The Times*

Stories galore . . . Miriam Margolyes has a life worth immortalising in print . . . An unapologetic account of a life well lived. As irrepressible as ever, Margolyes's warmth and wit shines through
*Radio Times*

Blisteringly honest and hugely entertaining
*Daily Record*

There's so much in the book; each chapter offering a tidbit of information both interesting and hilarious... It's full of life and vigour, as if you're conversing with a friend you've known for a long time
*Irish Examiner*

Brilliant stories abound in this memoir... which is honest, poignant and wildly indiscreet.
*The Guardian*

As compelling, forthright and irrepressible as its author
*Choice Magazine*

Miriam Margolyes' autobiography is crass, brash, rude, crude, funny and sad, and as delightful and surprising as Miriam herself
*Good Housekeeping*

As outrageously entertaining as you'd expect
*Daily Express*

Potty-mouthed and thrillingly candid, Margolyes's account of her career from teenage nude
modelling for Augustus John to sexy voiceover work for Ann Summers to playing Harry Potter's Professor Sprout is a riotous joy
*Daily Telegraph*