A Pocketful of Happiness

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A Pocketful of Happiness

A Pocketful of Happiness

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I understand I can change my preference through my account settings or unsubscribe directly from any marketing communications at any time. Funny, moving and perceptive, A Pocketful of Happiness is an insight into the life of a much loved British actor. He is so… untrammelled, his feelings for everyone and everything so immediate, so absolute and always blasted out undiluted.

Sometimes, it took the form of practical help: on Sundays, Nigella Lawson would send supper over in a taxi. In 1982, aspiring actor Richard E Grant met and fell in love with renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. he then quotes various journalists and publicists about the charm and disarming candor of his enthusiasm. Richard E Grant: ‘his feelings for everyone and everything are so immediate, and always blasted out undiluted’. When she felt utterly terrible, it was wonderfully distracting to have Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson eating ice-cream on her bed; to listen to Rupert Everett talk of his latest starring role (“I’ve just finished playing a gay stroke victim so might as well go straight to the Oscars now, darling, as I’m a shoo-in”).A deeply personal memoir of love, loss and a life lived together told brilliantly with candour and humour. I was not happy to read the details of Joan’s diagnosis and dying, but those sections of the book are genuine and compelling.

All this is carefully described by Grant in his new memoir, A Pocketful of Happiness, which takes the form mostly of the diary he wrote in the last year of his wife’s life (Washington, a celebrated voice coach, died in September 2021, two months before their 35th wedding anniversary). Darkness falls on us all eventually, even on those who know Elton John well enough to receive his condolences by phone. View image in fullscreen Richard E Grant with his late wife, Joan Washington, at a party in Richmond, London, in 2010. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor, when he unexpectedly met and fell in love with renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. It’s enough for him simply to tell us, over and over, how happy he and Washington were together, that they mated, like swans, for life.But in the end, Washington allowed her family to break the news and the three of them found themselves in the embrace of a highly sustaining – and sustained – outpouring of love and affection. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP View image in fullscreen Richard E Grant: ‘his feelings for everyone and everything are so immediate, and always blasted out undiluted’. Told with candour in Richard’s utterly unique style, A Pocketful of Happiness is a powerful, funny and moving celebration of life’s unexpected joys.



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