The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man

Newman at his best...Twice the book one could have dared to hope for, a narrative that is astute, introspective and surprisingly graceful.

Wall Street Journal

Eye-popping...Astonishing naked honesty

Telegraph

A stunning memoir...stuns with brutal honesty...smolders with introspection

Daily Mail

It's never not psychologically fascinating - a compelling insight into how profoundly right Philip Larkin was about the power of bad parents

The Times

Paul Newman is worthy of canonisation

Daily Mail

A shocking posthumous memoir based on Paul Newman's brutally honest lost recordings

Express

Astonishing...only burnishes his reputation. Not because he bangs on about his glorious deeds - in fact he barely mentions them at all - but because this once very private man reveals so much of his fascinating, never disappointing self

Hadley Freeman, Guardian

Beautifully frank and surprisingly powerful

Filmjuice

Painfully honest and full of jaw-dropping revelations

Spectator

This is not your usual Hollywood celebrity memoir...this is an exercise in soul-searching, in public therapy

Mail on Sunday

A candid reflection on life filled with insecurity

iPaper

Paul Newman speaks with a rawness in self-lacerating confession. His voice is that of a man breaking his silence, getting things off his chest. it is spiky and bitter, ironic and sharp, intelligent and unrelentingly self-critical.

Live for Film

A fascinating insight into an icon who never felt comfortable with the Hollywood myth

Stylist

Utterly impossible to put down

Sunday Times - Books of the Year