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A witty and profound audiobook portrait of the most talked-about English royal.
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was madly in love with her. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy.
Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. To her friends, she was witty and regal. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. In her 1950s heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. By the time of her death in 2002, she had come to personify disappointment. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. The tale of Princess Margaret is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled.
Such an enigmatic and divisive figure demands a reckoning that is far from the usual fare. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues, and essays, Craig Brown’s Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society.
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“In this deliciously sharp-tongued yet sympathetic biography of Princess Margaret, journalist Craig Brown reveals that behind the glamour, scandals and infamous dinner-party snubs, Princess Margaret was a complex woman with as much spirit as her lunchtime vodka ‘pick-me-up.’”
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“His princess comes to life in formally inventive chapters…Readers come to see more than just the bitchy, rude, quick-witted Margaret (although those are the best sections), but see her very privileged, very tragic life as well.”
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“Narrator Eleanor Bron confidently uses her British accent to charm and mildly hypnotize listeners with this…skillful, witty, and well-paced performance.”
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Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix’s The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven.
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An original, memorable and substantial achievement.
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A biography teeming with the joyous, the ghastly and clinically fascinating.
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Hilarious and eye-opening.
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Hugely entertaining . . . Brilliantly written, with a wonderful sardonic edge but also a thoughtful, moving tone.
— The Spectator
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A Sunday Times (London) Best Book of the Year
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A London Guardian Best Book of the Year
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A Newsday Pick of Best Books of Summer
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A London Daily Mail Best Book of the Year
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A Literary Hub Pick of the Month
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A BookPage Top Pick of the Month
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Among longlisted titles for Washington Post Best Books of the Year, 2018
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2018
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Among longlisted titles for Seattle Times Best Books of the Year, 2018
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2018
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Among longlisted titles for Oregonian Best GN of the Year, 2018
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Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee, 2018
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Among longlisted titles for Washington Post Best Books of the Year, 2018
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2018
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Among longlisted titles for Seattle Times Best Books of the Year, 2018
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2018
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Among longlisted titles for Oregonian Best GN of the Year, 2018
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Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee, 2018
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About Craig Brown
Craig Brown is a journalist and author. He is the only person ever to have won three different Press Awards?for best humorist, columnist, and critic?in the same year. He has been a columnist for The Guardian, The Times (London), The Spectator, and the Daily Telegraph, among others. He writes for London's Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday. His bestselling Hello Goodbye Hello was translated into ten languages.
About Eleanor Bron
Eleanor Bron, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an English actress whose stage career includes many productions, such as The Clean House, All about My Mother, and In Extremis. On television she has appeared in Fat Friends, Ted and Alice, Hippies, Vanity Fair, and as Patsy’s mother in Absolutely Fabulous. Her film credits include Wimbledon, Iris, and The Little Princess.