Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years Hardcover – October 15, 2019

I loved Julie Andrews since seeing the Sound of Music in 1965. My great aunt and I were supposed to see Tom Thumb but to our delight we saw The Sound of Music. Then saw it again the next day. Mary Poppins was pure art. I haven't seen many of the other works mentioned but I will have them on my list. Julie is such a wonderful person. Thank you for sharing your story. It couldn't have been easy. Good luck on your books.

A fantastic read ,so interesting . The saying you never know a person unless you walk in their shoes. Julie Andrews is a wonderful actress , author, and lovely person in every sense of the word. Everything she does looks easy or effortless until you read her books.

Interesting revealing times making big-budget pics. The working parts take second place to much family life. A good read however. Third book?

This memoir by Julie Andrews is a fascinating peek into the personal and professional life of one of the most beloved actresses of our time. She tells her life story with courage and grace. She is everything I always hoped that she was in real life. Thank you, Ms. Andrews for being vulnerable enough to tell your story. The world will only respect you more for doing so!🌹

I had no idea what a turbulent family life she endured and how she made so many moviese and shows during that time. Wow what an amazing talent and supportive person.

I admire Julie Andrew’s honesty in this book. It amazes me how much she shuttled between LA, NY, London, and Gstaad with children. The children had no stability and were often with nannies, away at school, or with their other parents. It’s admirable that she and Blake adopted two children, but then they were basically raised by a parade of nannies. Constant separations also impacted her marriages. I guess this is the reality when you have this type of career. Julie is immensely and seemingly effortlessly talented. I’m sure she had many more interesting stories than were included in this book and I wish she had shared them. She worked with so many talented people. I love behind the scenes stories and there were too few. It was mostly details about flying here or there which got old. This book doesn’t dig too deep and there were too many mundane details. She says she was in therapy for years but doesn’t share many insights. I appreciated the recap at the beginning and all the photos. I still enjoyed the book, but it could've been better.

This book makes me want to see her other movies! I’m exhausted by all the logistics required of her by international fame, constantly on the move and juggling family as well as professional work.

I really loved Dame Julie's second installment of her autobiography. She begins with a quick recapping her early life story that she wrote about in "Home". After reading the book, I understand now why the title "Home Work" was chosen. Julie is one of the rare people who works as hard at her profession as she does at her homelife. Too many stars write a memoir that is basically a "And then I did ____ movie". Not our Dame! Home Work goes into depth about what makes Julie unique. How can such a talented person get severe stage fright in front of a live audience? She covers events from her first film, Mary Poppins, through her Oscar nominated role in Victor/Victoria. She gave details about each of her films but she also gets into how she felt after the first big wave of fame hit her. If you have read her first book, you'll understand why she needed help coping with the onslaught. Her daughter and co-writer, Emma Walton Hamilton, stated that she admires her mom's resilience. I do too. She had to shift gears, learning film technique after a huge success on Broadway. Not content with being one of the best singers ever, she made sure her body of work also included dramas. Then, she leapt into a second career as an author of children's books. Her goals were to be as versitile as possible in all areas of performing. But just as much as she worked on her performance skills, she worked just as hard to be sure her family was taken care of. Julie seems to be the glue that holds many others in her family together. She was all at once, among other things, a hands-on mother of 5 of kids who ranged in age from infants to teens, caretaker for her youngest brother while he tried to control a drug habit, and the calming presence that helped her volitile husband continue to create films. Trying to juggle everything going on around her was a Herculean feat, but she does it with grace, wisdom and humor. She admits her insecurities and analyzes how she could have handled events better. Possibly the most dramatic sections of the book tell of almost burning to death during the filming of "Hawaii", adopting two Vietnamese baby girls who arrived from the Project: Baby Lift as the Americans left Saigon, and the heartbreaking sights she saw when she visited Cambodia. She didn't just go to look, she financed buying fuel for the planes taking relief supplies, giving her time for benefit performances, and bringing children with severe handicaps to the US for medical care. All of this while she tried to take care of a mother that wasn't very willing to be helped and a husband who was struggling with depression and pain by taking prescription narcotics.All through the book, Julie conveys over and over to the reader how she is a remarkably talented, intelligent and compassionate person. I really hope she sits down and begins her third book in the trilogy because I didn't want this book to end!