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Author: Richard E Grant
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9781668030844
ISBN 10: 1668030845
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 13 August 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""One of the bravest, strongest, funniest memoirs I've ever read."" -Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry ""Actor Grant delivers an excellent memoir that's part journal, part love letter to his late wife, Joan Washington. Grant's tender recollections effectively conjure on the page the couple's enduring connection. The result is a moving and entertaining celebration of life and love."" -Publishers Weekly (starred review) ""Grant's prose is charming and witty... An engaging story of life, love, and grief that will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost."" --Booklist ""A diary-keeper since childhood, the author draws on his candid entries to weave together an absorbing, moving chronicle... Ebullience and grief mark a touching memoir."" -Kirkus Reviews ""A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book."" -Dolly Alderton, international bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love ""An emotional rollercoaster - profoundly moving and wonderfully entertaining. A brilliant memoir about living, loving and losing."" -Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Man Booker Prize and author of Girl, Woman, Other ""What a book! To put it one way, you could describe the lovely Richard E. Grant's A Pocketful of Happiness as love, death, and showbiz stories - and while accurate, that would be to miss out both its fierceness and tenderness."" -Nigella Lawson, bestselling cookbook author and Television host ""A Pocketful of Happiness documents the head and heart exploding overwhelm of grief ... brutal but necessary."" - The Sunday Times ""Grant's profoundly moving book, part love letter to his beloved wife, part gossipy memoir about his life and times, will resonate with anyone who ever lost a loved one."" - Daily Express ""Richard E. Grant's heartbreaking memoir recalls a long, happy marriage - and leaves us shattered for his loss."" - The Spectator ""A touching account."" - The Observer ""Incredibly moving."" - The Daily Telegraph"
Author Information
Richard E. Grant was launched to fame in 1987 cult classic Withnail and I. Since then, he has gone on to star in a wide variety of films, including his Oscar nominated performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me? in 2018. An avid reader, in 2021 he hosted the BBC's literary travel series Write Around the World with Richard E. Grant. He married Joan Washington in 1986, and has a daughter, Olivia. You can find him on Twitter @RichardEGrant and Instagram at @richard.e.grant.
