{"product_id":"books-managing-expectations-by-minnie-driver","title":"Managing Expectations","description":"'A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving' - Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt'  'Vital, heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton  'A wonderful memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled it up in one joyous sitting.' - Elizabeth Day  'An absolute jewel of a book. Gloriously readable, hilarious, painful, acute, sharply recalled and vividly brought to life' - Stephen Fry   A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver.  I love stories. I have mostly told other people's but now, in telling my own, I realize how all our stories are connected by that great leveller of acclaim, loss, fortitude, and fortune: being human.  When I look at my life from the alleged halfway point, some patterns are revealed: one, that the story does not necessarily begin or end where it should; two, happy endings are overrated. And three, happy endings are almost never the end.   This book is memoir-ish. A tell-most. Largely because there's a lot I don't remember, and a lot that's not worth talking about.  So, this is a collection of stories about how things not working out - worked out in the end. How reaching for the dream is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream itself coming true.   I really hope you enjoy it. Love, Minnie x","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53672447508753,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781786581501.jpg?v=1781519717","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-managing-expectations-by-minnie-driver","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}