Memoir

In their voicesteps

Item: This Much Is True
Author: Carol Middleton

The unmistakable Miriam Margolyes

by Carol Middleton •

January–February 2022, no. 439

This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes

John Murray Press, $49.99 hb, 447 pp

Memoir

In their voicesteps

The unmistakable Miriam Margolyes

by Carol Middleton •

January–February 2022, no. 439

Miriam Margolyes as Nell in Endgame by Samuel Beckett at the Duchess Theatre, London, in 2009 (Donald Cooper/Alamy)

The title of Miriam Margolyes’s memoir, This Much Is True, strikes a declamatory note, well suited to the octogenarian actor whose greatest asset is her voice, with its diverse accents, timbres, and moods. It also proclaims that we are not going to have the wool pulled over our eyes, or to be frustrated by authorial modesty, tact, or political correctness.

Carol Middleton

By this contributor

Carol Middleton is a journalist, arts critic and author, based in Melbourne. Her short story awards include second place in The Age competition 2010. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the anthologies Melbourne Subjective, Ink3 and Vine Leaves Literary Journal. She is working on a memoir in essays.