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Baby Boys and Expletives

“Everything felt miraculous, so even the harder aspects of being a single mother took on a glow.”

Academy-award nominated actress Minnie Driver shares the ups and downs of her life through entertaining and poignant tales in her book MANAGING EXPECTATIONS, ranging from her first solo sung on the local news from a windy tree at her English boarding school to the death of her beloved mother during COVID-19, with candid stories of acting failures and successes in between. In this excerpt, Driver describes her son Henry’s birth—a surprise from start to finish. Henry is the happy result of a brief relationship with writer Timothy J. Lea when they were working together on the TV series THE RICHES. Driver has raised her son as a single parent since his birth in 2008. And through it all, Driver explores the beauty of managing her way through the unexpected and painful

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