Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years is a best-selling memoir written by Julie Andrews. It was published on April 1, 2008 by Hyperion. Home tells the story of Julie Andrews' life up until 1963, when she left England for Hollywood to shoot Mary Poppins and is intended as part one of a two part memoir. While it includes dark childhood memories of surviving the London Blitz and attempts by her step father to molest her , the book overall presents a happy vision of Andrews' childhood. She has said in an interview that the book The Little Gray Men and her dad were her inspirations and source of influence as an author, along with Dickens among other authors. The book received a generally positive critical reception. The Los Angeles Times...