In this New York Times bestselling follow-up to her critically
acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews reflects on her astonishing
career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music,
and Victor/Victoria.
In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller,
Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an
acclaimed singer and performer on the stage.
With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years,
Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her
phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films -- Mary Poppins and The
Sound of Music. Andrews describes her years in the film industry --
from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she
discuss her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants
of cinema and television, she also unveils her personal story of
adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of
unimaginable success, being a new mother, the end of her first marriage,
embracing two stepchildren, adopting two more children, and falling in
love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked
together in numerous films, including Victor/Victoria, the
gender-bending comedy that garnered multiple Oscar nominations.
Cowritten with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, and told with
Andrews's trademark charm and candor, Home Work takes us on a rare and
intimate journey into an extraordinary life that is funny, heartrending,
and inspiring.
