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Managing Expectations

By: Minnie Driver
Narrated by: Minnie Driver
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About this listen

Winner of the IPG Zebralution Audio Award 2023

Shortlisted for Best Narrator at the Audio Production Awards 2022

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

This audiobook includes an exclusive bonus track with Minnie Driver and Emma Forrest in conversation.

©2022 Minnie Driver (P)2022 Bonnier Books UK Entertainment & Celebrities Celebrity Funny Feel-Good Heartfelt Inspiring Thought-Provoking Witty

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beautifully written and beautifully performed. Laugh out loud funny and poignantly sad. must read.

wonderful

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Whilst this would have been a very good book to read, hearing it through Minnie's own voice gave it so much more. Moving, funny, fascinating. The mother daughter relationship was poignant and honest.

So glad I experienced through Audible

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A lovely book from start to finish. Such a wonderful warmth, with humour, wit and sadness. Beautifully heartfelt. Thank you for sharing your story Minnie.

Wonderful

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Really beautiful book, loved listening to it. Mini stories from her life, read with so much humour.

Beautiful book

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I listened to this book when my dad died. There were so many aspects of Minnie's essays that I identified with. It is beautifully written, pointient and thought provoking. I felt comforted by the gentle narration and was impressed by the digity she showed in describing some of her most difficult times. Wonderful.

beautifully narrated

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Loved it! Minnie is a wonderful story teller. Such a funny, authentic, life-affirming listen.

Too good to miss

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Such a lovely read, lots of interesting stories and emotions excerpts. Minnie has a great voice for audio books as well!

Charming

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Thoughtfully written and delivered with humour and charm, I have already re-listened to favourite chapters.

Hugely enjoyable

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This spoke to
Me because I lost
My mother in 2019 and it was very similar to everything I felt - and as well the reference to how birth and death are aligned snd very close . Something most people seem to dismiss but for me I understood death as my children were born . I found it funny touching snd honest . I am stunned that her father sent her off alone to England at 11 she writes about it so vividly . A powerful Read

Her mother’s death

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Beautiful, intelligent, witty yet wonderfully touching book. Heartbreaking at times but told with a smile. Highly recommend it - particularly the audiobook version.

Beautiful, intelligent, witty yet wonderfully touching book

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