Home: a memoir of my early years. Julie Andrews. 2008.

In Home: a Memoir of My Early Years, Julie Andrews takes her readers on a warm, moving and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. Along the way, she weathered the London Blitz of World War II; her parents’ painful divorce; her mother’s turbulent second marriage to Canadian tenor Ted Andrews and a childhood spent on radio, in music hall and giving concert performances all over England. Julie’s professional career began at the age of 12, and in 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to participate in a Royal Command Performance before the Queen. When only 18, she left home for the United States to make her Broadway debut in The Boyfriend, and thus began her meteoric rise to stardom.