I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You
  • Published: 10 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405958974
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.00

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

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1 Jul 2025
Tr. Paperback
29 Oct 2024
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10 Oct 2024
Audiobook
10 Oct 2024
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10 Nov 2024
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Packed with hard-won wisdoms and gentle truths, this is Miranda’s honest exploration of the lessons she has learned on her journey from illness to recovery

Hello to you, I am with news. I have a new book: I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know – what an intriguing title!

Basically, I have had an unexpectedly difficult decade – there have been surprising joys but also deep revelations and challenging lows. I shall be honest about those, because what I discovered in the difficult times were my, what I call, treasures. Treasures – practical tools, values, ways, answers researched from some great scientists, neuroscientists, therapists, sociologists (all the ‘ists’) out there – that have genuinely led to a sense of freedom, joy, peace and physical recovery I never would have thought possible. Life now, amazingly, with what I will share is – SUCH FUN! (Always important to quote your own catch phrases…)

If you fancy having a read, then I hope my story might help your story. After all, we are in this beautiful, mysterious, challenging life together. Rest assured there are funny stories along the way – we will have a laugh too, my dear reader chum. Oh, and I couldn’t possibly say if there is a love story in it . . . (There is – shush.) Exciting!
  • Published: 10 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405958974
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.00
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About the author

Miranda Hart

Miranda Hart was born in Torquay and grew up in Petersfield, Hampshire. She attended U.W.E and graduated with a 2:1 in Politics, and went on to do a postgraduate Acting course at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London. After numerous stand-up and sketch shows at the Edinburgh Festival and London comedy clubs, her comic reputation was established and she was cast in several hit TV series including Smack the Pony, Nighty Night and Not Going Out. She earned a British Comedy Award nomination as Best Female Comedy Newcomer for her role in cult sci-fi sitcom Hyperdrive, in which she co-starred with Nick Frost and Kevin Eldon. In 2008, her radio sitcom Miranda Hart's Joke Shop was broadcast on Radio 2, and in 2009, she got her own TV series, Miranda. The show was extremely popular, and won her three British Comedy Awards and a Broadcasting Press Guild Award. Since then, she has starred as Chummy in Call the Midwife (a role which earned her a BAFTA nomination) as well as appearing in the feature film Spy alongside Jude Law. She is also a regular on TV panel shows such as Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie to You, and has released a bestselling autobiography, Is It Just Me?

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Praise for I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

Packed with optimism and wisdom

i

A bombshell, moving, inspirational. Hart passes on the tips that helped her emerge from psychological as much as physical doldrums. No comedian, female or male, has been so taken to the nation’s bosom since Victoria Wood

Independent

A raw and poignant account. Miranda is more of an everywoman than ever before

The Times

Miranda's account of slowly letting her guard down and being vulnerable is sweet and moving, and proof that happiness is possible even in the most trying times

Guardian

A memoir and a guide for those in a similar scenario, or indeed anyone feeling crushed and exhausted by modern life

inews.co.uk

This book is a real gem for therapists to recommend to clients. A rich introduction to some of the best self-help strategies from a trusted and much-loved icon. All the more powerful to read how Miranda discovered them via her own health crises; a painful read were it not softened by her comedic take on life's trials.

Dr Christine Dunkley, Consultant DBT Trainer

A wonderful book, filled with treasure

Julia Samuel, psychotherapist and bestselling author

Irrepressible and joyous. Taking us affectionately by the hand, Miranda takes us through her ten-year journey to deep self-knowledge. Along the way she picks up treasures, smashes old patterns of behaviour, and works out a code for how to live and what life's priorities should be. She describes memorable escapades from her past and can't repress her inner funniest girl in the dorm self

Daily Mail

Much to treasure in these pages. The compassionate thinking that Hart espouses will help so many. A warm hug

Scotland on Sunday

The wisest, kindest, bravest, most forgiving and generous book. A manual for gentleness

Isabella Tree

Wonderfully optimistic

Financial Times

A lot of wisdom as well as hilarious and heartwarming comedy

The Lady

SUCH FUN! Miranda at her chummy best

Woman & Home

Miranda certainly knows her onions. As well as offering readers ten keys to living and feeling well, she details how she found them herself . . . you've probably forgotten just how funny she can be

Radio Times