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The joy of Everett as a writer has always been his pitilessly clear-eyed perspective… every sentence [he] writes rings with his personality, and it’s a personality that has always been irresistible * Hadley Freeman, Guardian, praise for Rupert Everett * Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes his attention…However wasteful and capricious his first profession, we know that he is perfectly safe. The blank page will henceforth always be his. He is a writer to his (aching) bones * Rachel Cooke, Observer, praise for Rupert Everett * His resilient energy, sharp-eyed intelligence and keen sense of the ridiculous, as well as his capacity for short-term enjoyment of life’s sensual pleasures, infuse his writing with a warm glow…the sheer force of his personality is irresistible and there isn’t a dull moment * Telegraph, praise for Rupert Everett * A supremely gifted writer * Lynn Barber, The Times, praise for Rupert Everett * What makes this autobiography a (novelistic) masterpiece is the way he is acutely aware of the melancholia and pain that are the other side of hedonism’s coin * Daily Telegraph, praise for Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins * Most of all he is just a very good writer indeed * Julie Burchill, Observer, praise for Vanished Years *

Rupert Everett shot to fame with the film Another Country in 1984 and has been a hugely successful actor and writer for many years. His films include The Madness of King George III; My Best Friend’s Wedding; Shrek II and III; Shakespeare in Love and St Trinian’s. His stage work includes playing Oscar Wilde in David Hare’s The Judas Kiss (2012), for which he won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Play and was nominated for an OIivier Award. His first memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, was a Sunday Times bestseller and its sequel, Vanished Years, won the Sheridan Morley Prize for Biography. His film of Oscar Wilde’s last years, The Happy Prince, was released in 2018 to widespread acclaim.

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