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Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru

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/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

44/100

Critics

80/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Hugh Bonneville

Publisher:

Other Press

Date:

November 8, 2022

From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to mistaking a Hollywood star for an estate agent, Hugh Bonneville creates a vivid picture of a career on stage and screen.

What The Reviewers Say

Louis Bayard,
The Washington Post
Winning and becomingly modest.
Christina Patterson,
The Sunday Times (UK)
Charmingly self-deprecating.
Rachel Cooke,
The Observer (UK)
If collapsing into laughter is what you need at the moment, then Playing Under the Piano could be the book for you. As a genre, actors’ memoirs are usually to be treated with utmost suspicion; I find most of them gruesome.
Lynn Barber,
The Telegraph (UK)
He is markedly discreet about his personal life.