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Get a fascinating insight into the man behind the glasses in Barry Humphries' one and only autobiography

A highly readable, percipient and funny autobiography. With Barry Humphries, the laughter is always tempered by the presence of something very like loss.

Humphries' past is a bombed and cratered landscape, except for his youth which stands evergreen in its quirky, vanishing details. When it comes to suburban drolleries, he puts Clive James in the shade.

Barry Humphries was loved all over the world for his alter ego Dame Edna Everage and her famous catchphrase 'Hello Possums!' 
 
But beyond his own monstrous creation, this remarkable memoir takes a nostalgic look over his life and career, and the private life that Dame Edna overshadowed. 
 
More Please, the first of several autobiographies by Humphries, won critical praise and the J.R. Ackerley prize.

Discover the legendary life of the man behind the make-up and glasses, Barry Humphries 
 
'A literary masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES 
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Because Barry Humphries deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications, the true details of his life are among the best-kept secrets of our time. More Please, prophetically his first utterance, reveals the man behind the actor. 
 
This bestselling book moves from suburban Australia of the 1930s, 40s and 50s to Humphries' international stardom and his revelations and confessions will astonish his vast audience, being so wildly at odds with all that has gone before. 
 
Fascinating and always funny, this is the truly remarkable memoir from the man who made the whole world laugh.

Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, actor and author. He was most famous for his alter ego Dame Edna Everage. He was married to Lizzie Spender, the daughter of British poet Sir Stephen Spender, and had two sons and two daughters.

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Get a fascinating insight into the man behind the glasses in Barry Humphries' one and only autobiography

A highly readable, percipient and funny autobiography. With Barry Humphries, the laughter is always tempered by the presence of something very like loss.

Humphries' past is a bombed and cratered landscape, except for his youth which stands evergreen in its quirky, vanishing details. When it comes to suburban drolleries, he puts Clive James in the shade.

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