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Michael’s diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner…
Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA and Canada. As their popularity grew, so Palin relates how the group went their separate ways, later to re-form for stage shows and the celebrated films THE HOLY GRAIL and LIFE OF BRIAN. Living through the three-day week and the miners strike, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these perceptive and funny diaries.
‘I sit around, half-naked, made up as the Ex-Leper. I’ve even been evicted from my caravan, which is being used as a make-up base for extra lepers’.
‘So absorbing …Palin is an elegant and engaging writer’ – Guardian
‘An entertaining and at time deeply moving read’ – Mail On Sunday