Hold Back the Night: Memoirs of a Lost Childhood, a Warring Family and a Secret Affair with Richard BurtonCentury, 2003 - 320 sivua The true story of a young woman's love affair with Richard Burton Born into a joyless, volatile and, by turns, impoverished family, Rosemary Kingsland tells for the first time her story of how, at just thirteen, her life was transformed forever when she met and fell in love with the actor Richard Burton. In this extraordinary memoir the writer and journalist, recounts growing up first in India, then Wales and finally post-war London where she lived with her drunken, and endlessly scheming father and her melancholic, star-crossed mother eking out a living with hardly enough money for the basic necessities. Homelife was an endless cycle of her father's barely concealed infidelities and savage outbursts and her mother's breakdowns, more than often leaving Rosemary to see to her young siblings, all the while keeping a paper round and riding to school each day dreaming of something else - something better. In 1954, the young Richard Burton was causing a sensation in London's theatre land with both his talent as an actor and his arresting, brooding good looks commanding attention from producers and hoards of adoring fans alike. Rosemary first knew of him when she went with her father to |
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