Julie Andrews relives her glorious, complicated, very real Hollywood life in her new memoir
"The hardest thing with this book was finding a voice," Julie Andrews says.
She is talking, in a phone interview along with her co-writer, her daughter and longtime collaborator Emma Walton Hamilton, about her new memoir, "Home Work."
The statement sounds, at first, like a joke - the voice of Julie Andrews is, after all, one of the most famous in the world, and not just the impossibly crystalline expanse of her singing voice, which, alas, was irreparably damaged during surgery in 1997. Whether in performance, interview or on the pages of the many books she has written, Andrews' melodic cadence, often wry though always kind, is instantly recognizable.
But memoirs, like memories, are tricky things, the past reconstructed in the present, and finding a tone that reflects the reality of the former and the perspective of the latter is not easy. Although Andrews had already written one memoir, "Home," she wanted "Home Work" to feel different because the two portions of her life were different.
"In 'Home' I was an adult telling a
