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A moving laughoutloud memoir from one of todays bestloved British actors whose credits include Downton Abbey Notting Hill and Paddington

From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play to mistaking a Hollywood star for an estate agent Hugh Bonneville creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and screenWhat is it like working with Judi Dench and Julia Roberts or playing Robert De Niros right leg or not being Gary Oldman twiceA wickedly funny storyteller Bonneville also writes with poignancy about his fathers dementia and of his mother whose life in the secret service emerged only after her death Whether telling stories of working with divas Damesor a bear with a penchant for marmalade this is a richly entertaining account of his life as an actor