Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN num: 9780099457985
ISBN number: 0099457989
Label: Arrow Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Arrow Books Ltd
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: May 06, 2004
Publishing house: Arrow Books Ltd
Sale Popularity Level: 6004158
Studio: Arrow Books Ltd
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Born into a joyless, volatile and, by turns, impoverished family, Rosemary Kingsland tells for the very first time her story of how, at just thirteen, her life was transformed forever when she met and fell in love with the actor Richard Burton. In this extraordinary memoir the writer and journalist, recounts growing up very first in India, then Wales, and finally, post-war London where she lived with her drunken, and endlessly scheming father and her melancholic, mother eking out a living with barely enough money for the basic necessities. Home life was an endless cycle of her father's flagrant infidelities and savage outbursts and her mother's breakdowns, often leaving Rosemary to see to her young siblings, all the while keeping a paper round and riding to school each day dreaming of something else - something better. In 1954, the young Richard Burton was causing a sensation in London's theatre land with both his talent as an actor and his arresting, brooding good looks commanding attention from producers and hoards of adoring fans alike. Rosemary very first knew of him when she went with her father to hear a reading of Under Milk Wood at once captivated by his magnetic gaze. And here at the cor
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