This much is true. Miriam Margolyes. 2021.

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury’s Caramel Bunny, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is the nation’s favourite (and cheekiest) treasure. Now at the age of eighty, she has finally decided to tell her life story, and it’s well worth the wait.

Find out how being conceived during an air raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to Miriam being known as the naughtiest girl ever to be educated at Oxford High School; how, as a teenager, she ended up posing nude for Augustus John; what she did when Warren Beatty asked ‘Do you fuck?’ and much, much more.

This memoir takes you on an extraordinary adventure through a truly independent mind and life. With a vast list stretching from Martin Scorsese to Barbra Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo DiCaprio to an incomprehensible Isaiah Berlin. This Much is True is as clever and self-critical, as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its’ wonderful author.