A review by librariangeorgia
This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes

funny informative lighthearted slow-paced

3.5

I’ve always thought that Miriam comes across as quite a genuine and funny person with an interesting life that when I saw that she had a memoir, I wanted to read it. 
 
To be completely honest, the thing I was most looking forward to reading about what her experience around the Harry Potter films. I found it quite interesting that she basically treated it like a job, and wasn’t (and isn’t) involved in the fanbase surrounding it - she’s never read the books nor watched the films! 
 
Most of the jobs that she mentioned having, I’d never heard of, but most of them were before my time so not necessarily something I would’ve grown up with. However I still found it interesting to read her perspective on each of them - and the gossip which she does love to dish out! 
 
A couple of things that I didn’t like about this book: 
 
She does a lot of name dropping which did really get on my nerves after the first couple of names - I didn’t care much for those people that she mentioned and didn’t feel like she needed to mention them by name. Especially since she’s reveal a lot of personal information that I’m hoping she got permission from them or their family before publishing this book! 
 
There’s a lot of talk about sex - in the first third of the book, she constantly mentions “sucking off” a load of different men that she came into contact with which got too repetitive that it irritated me. She even goes so far to mention and the end of the book that she loves talking about sex - which is why she spoke so much about it throughout the book. 
 
She mentions having a transgender person as a very close friend, yet when she talked about them she constantly misgendered them and used their deadname - it felt as though she was being completely inconsiderate to how they wished to be seen by others. 
 
Despite the negatives, I found this book to be a really interesting insight into Miriam’s life and I really did enjoy reading it.
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