{"product_id":"9781786581501","title":"Managing Expectations : AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. `Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton by Minnie Driver","description":"A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving' - Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt''Vital, heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton'A wonderful memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled it up in one joyous sitting.' - Elizabeth Day'An absolute jewel of a book. Gloriously readable, hilarious, painful, acute, sharply recalled and vividly brought to life' - Stephen FryA dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver.   I love stories. I have mostly told other people's but now, in telling my own, I realize how all our stories are connected by that great leveller of acclaim, loss, fortitude, and fortune: being human.   When I look at my life from the alleged halfway point, some patterns are revealed: one, that the story does not necessarily begin or end where it should; two, happy endings are overrated. And three, happy endings are almost never the end.   This book is memoir-ish. A tell-most. Largely because there's a lot I don't remember, and a lot that's not worth talking about.   So, this is a collection of stories about how things not working out - worked out in the end. How reaching for the dream is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream itself coming true.   I really hope you enjoy it.   Love, Minnie x\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205479989426,"sku":"9781786581501","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781786581501_9727bfb2-d246-41a6-b919-b46fe8a086c1.jpg?v=1699027914","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781786581501","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}