Anneke Wills
Autor von Self Portrait: My Journey as an Actress, Wife and Mother in the Swinging Sixties
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- Fulmer Chase, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
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It helps that Wills has an extremely endearing personality, never holding back on good memories or bad, always remembering people with either extreme affection or fairly abrupt distaste. Personally, I got the sense of someone who both experienced the 1960s and came out with a multifaceted view of it - some thrilling positives and some dark truths - and because Wills is so honest and open in the way she tells her stories, you leave with the feeling that you have a better understanding, too. Of course, it helps to know who many of the people are already - Anthony Newley figures largely, as does Michael Gough, along with a whole cavalcade of other British stars of radio, theatre and television. It's interesting to see how much Wills is able to forgive and generate love toward people who, frankly, were often self-absorbed - and that includes her younger self. There's a huge aspect of catharsis to the book which just can't be denied.
Fairly late in the book, there's a revelation about Wills' brother, Robin, which throws the style of her memory book into fairly sharp relief. To say more would rob Self Portrait of one of its major arcs, but suffice to say that I finished the book far more aware of why it is the way it is than when I started. I'm quite curious, now, to read Wills' second volume, Naked, especially as it gets away from the lights of British celebrity and on into her travels in India, the United States, and beyond. Wills is a bubbly and sensitive storyteller, and I'm interested to see where she goes next.… (mehr)