Bøger af Claire Drainie Taylor

It s an autobiography! If I tell you what s in it you won t read the book. Claire Drainie Taylor Or would you? Maybe you d be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class Jewish Canadian couple in a small prairie town who, at age sixteen, married a refined Englishman, and survived the Great Depression, partly alone in a shack in the woods of Vancouver Island. Or how, only a few months after returning to Vancouver, with no training and minimal education, this same young woman walked on stage at one of Canada s finest old theatres, and went on to a successful thirty-year career as an actress and radio dialogue writer. Having been compelled by her family to write her memoir, it wasn t until she d finished and reread her manuscript that Claire Drainie Taylor realized what an extraordinary life she d led. Her descriptions of the many fascinating incidents that make up her story, and how she dealt with them, revealed herself to herself in a way that illuminates what she calls The Surprise of My Life.