Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Shirley J.       Adult Non-Fiction   Memoir    A continuance of the telling of Julia Andrew's life beginning with her years spent in Hollywood                                                                                                                

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews     352 pages                                       

In her previous Memoir, "Home," Julie Andrews talked about her childhood, her singing and her stage career.   In Home Work she picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her earliest films particularly, "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music."   She shares much insight into what it was like working with Dick Van Dyke and Christopher Plummer, Angela Cartwright, and the rest of the cast and crew on each movie set and what was going on in her life outside the film sets.   She shares the good times as well as the challenging ones.   She discusses growing older and the fun she has had in the making of the Eloise films playing Nanny where her beautiful voice was not featured as her character Nanny had a scratchy raspy voice.   She talks about working with Robert Preston in "Victor/Victoria" meeting, falling in love with and her marriage to Blake Edwards and their life together blending their family and working together with other celebrities throughout their till death did them part marriage.    She talks about her friendship with Carol Burnett and others in Hollywood, her comedy/variety show, her time on the stage and so many more adventures in her wonderful life.   She shares her life with such a charm that it is a captivating story.     I recommend this book to adults because I think adults will enjoy it more than children.