Genre: Adult Non-Fiction – Biography
Published: 2021
Format: Audiobook
Rating: ★★★★★
A little gem of a book from a man who offered some positive news headlines in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic. However, this is more than just the story of what he did during COVID, but a wider exploration of what he learnt from 100 years of life.
He discusses his childhood, war experiences, and family, as well as the pandemic and his newfound fame. It’s written in a friendly confiding tone, encouraging you to live each moment and be the best person you can be, helping others and making yourself happy.
It’s not profound but it’s encouraging and reasserts those things that you wish you could do and be, and makes you want to do and be those things all over again. Derek Jacobi is also a fantastic narrator of this audiobook. He strikes a perfect tone for the encouragement and dry humour that the book is full of.
“The overgrown track is always the more interesting option than the well-trodden path, and if the idea of that frightens us a bit, then all the better.”
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