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    A Pocketful of Happiness
    A Pocketful of Happiness
    A Pocketful of Happiness
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    A Pocketful of Happiness

    Written by Richard E. Grant

    Narrated by Richard E. Grant

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    Academy Award–nominated actor Richard E. Grant’s “genuine and compelling” (The New York Times), “moving and entertaining” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir about finding happiness in even the darkest of days.

    Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a “pocketful of happiness in every day.”

    This honest and frequently hilarious memoir is written in honor of that challenge—Richard has faithfully kept a diary since childhood, and in these entries, he shares raw details of everything he has experienced: both the pain of losing his beloved wife and the excitement of their life together, from the role that transformed his life overnight in Withnail and I to his thrilling Oscar Award nomination thirty years later for Can You Ever Forgive Me?.

    In “one of the bravest, strongest, funniest memoirs I’ve ever read” (Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry), A Pocketful of Happiness is a powerful, funny, and moving celebration of life’s unexpected joys.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 1, 2023
    ISBN9781797161136
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    Richard E. Grant

    Richard E Grant was born and brought up in Mbabane, Swaziland. He came to London in 1982, where he waitered, repped, toured and fringed until getting a role in a television satire about advertising, Honest, Decent and True. This led to his being cast in the seminal movie Withnail And I (1986). He is the author of a book of film diaries With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E Grant (1996) and the novel By Design: A Hollywood Tale (1998). He has written occasional pieces for the Sunday Times, Observer, Vanity Fair and Premiere Magazine. Richard E Grant lives with his family in London.

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    • 5/5
      Absolutely devastating, yet uplifting and essential for anybody that's lost a loved one to disease. Grant's voice is lively and unique, and his reading of his own diaries brim with emotion.
    • 5/5
      As heartwarming as it is heartbreaking, this beautiful memoir takes the reader on a wandering journey through the highs and lows of a very deep love and the indescribable grief that is its inevitable end. Told with humor and blistering honesty. I cannot say enough good things about this book, so I will stop here...with love for both Richard and Joan.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful book. I loved it. So many times I felt I was right there with them.