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A Pocketful of Happiness
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Publisher's Summary
'Fascinating, funny and heart wrenching' Dame Julie Walters
'An emotional rollercoaster - profoundly moving and wonderfully entertaining. A brilliant memoir about living, loving and losing' Bernardine Evaristo
‘One of the bravest, strongest, funniest memoirs I’ve ever read’ Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
An intimate and uplifting memoir by Richard E. Grant.
Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has been a fixture on our screens since his breakout role in Withnail and I in 1987. When his beloved wife Joan died in 2021 after almost forty years together, she set him a challenge: to find a pocketful of happiness in every day.
The result is this book.
Set between the present day and flashbacks to delightfully indiscreet diary entries recalling landmarks from his remarkable life and glittering career, this is an immensely personal and profound memoir that celebrates and cherishes life’s unexpected joys.
Funny, moving and perceptive, A Pocketful of Happiness is an insight into the life of a much loved British actor.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-03-2023
As lovely as I had hoped for
Richard E Grant does not disappoint. He has written a honest and beautifully real account of his life and love with Joan. I enjoyed every minute of the book.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-02-2023
A pocketful of happiness
Deeply personal account of a beautiful marriage and career. Enjoyed listening to Richard share his remarkable story.
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- Barbara
- 27-11-2022
Thoroughly beautiful memoir
I loved this beautiful, intimate story of great love and loss. Richard E Grant narrates his own book, telling the story of his 38 year relationship with his wife, Joan and his devotion makes you hope for yourself that you might be lucky enough to find that sort of love.
At times, the book slips into flowery language which I found a little uncomfortable but I can forgive that because the universality and ordinariness of loneliness in the face of loss resonated deeply with me. I highly recommend this beautiful and beautifully read memoir.
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- Carl Thomson
- 14-01-2023
Emotional Rescue
A beautiful portrait of love and loss exquisitely told in magnificent style by Mr Grant with a certain amount of panache.
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- Simon Williams
- 27-05-2023
Warm, hilarious and love filled
Absolutely beautiful story, I loved the weaving in and out of times gone by and the present. Wonderful
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- Ben
- 19-07-2023
Amazingly written
As an Australian I have all my life had a hate for those with pompous English accents, but within a chapter or two found Richard so amazing, he really is an incredible story teller and quite obviously an amazingly beautiful human being. This book in a small way changed how I look at the world and people, in a small but lasting way.
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- Kate Ellis
- 03-01-2024
Gut-punchingly stunning portrayal of love and loss.
A genuine love story. Both highly entertaining and insightful and a very real examination of nursing a loved one to their death. Deeply moving and powerful.
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- Antony Stein
- 06-11-2022
Outstanding, insightful, beautiful
A love story writ large. Wonderful writing, performance and sentiment. Brings across the sense of the person, in time and place.
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- Mary-Ellen Miller
- 30-11-2022
excellent and useful
beautifully narrated perfect description of process and impact of dying and death of a beloved spouse ...
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- gregory Ross
- 05-12-2022
Réflection of a Loving family life
Positive yet seemingly oddly short and brief despite it being about so profound a subject
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