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Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time.

You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think again.

'Glorious.' NEIL GAIMAN

'Touching and affectionate.' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, SUNDAY TIMES

'Heartfelt . . . honest.' OBSERVER

'Moving, powerful and very funny.' MAIL ON SUNDAY

In 1975, a gangly black sixteen-year-old apprentice factory worker from Dudley appeared on our TV screens for the first time. He had no idea he would go on to become a national treasure. Here at last, Sir Lenny Henry tells the revealing and very funny story of his rise to fame.

Surviving a tough family upbringing, along with the trauma of finding out the truth about his father at a young age, Lenny beat the odds. With a riotous warmth and his trademark energy, in Who Am I, Again? he tells the heart-breakingly honest and inspirational story of his youth.

AN i BOOK OF THE YEAR

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

'So appealing . . . Witty, charming and engagingly self-aware.' i

'Funny, warm and self-deprecating.' THE TIMES

'A raw, touching memoir.' GUARDIAN

'An endearing memoir . . . He's a skilful storyteller.' SUNDAY EXPRESS

'Enjoyable and endearing.' DAILY EXPRESS

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I grew up with Lenny - what a bad man (sorry - that's a good man if you don't understand Jamaican culture).
Lovely Autobiography and some great observations about UK / Jamaican life.

Great Audiobook Lenny.

Lenny, Lenny, Lenny - The Lenny Henry Show

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What a fascinating insight into what makes a star.
The trials and tribulations he's been through from an early age to become one of the nations funniest acts. His use of humour to deflect what was a very racist period in our history was brutally honest
but inspiring. If only we'd learned from his approach to it all we wouldn't have the issues we still have today.
Being a Black Country lad I could relate to all the places etc he mentioned but there's something for everyone in this book irrespective of your place of birth, so listen, laugh and enjoy.

A star is born

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Nice story from lenny's humble beginnings to how he became a star.
I enjoyed it

pleasant

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Tiswas days are of course wonderful but so is the rest. A powerful insight into what it was like to be growing up as a West Indian child in the Midlands of 1970’s Britain and it was damn hard. Great book, more please Sir Lenny.

Flantastic

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I like this book but I only wish that it had gone further along in his life and career. His family sounds like an orchestra of personalities all trying to be heard. I would loved to have met his mum she sounds inimitable and wonderful. I have always liked Lenny Henry, and most of all his soft smooth voice when he is speaking normally. It was seeing Lennys name as the narrator of Kit de Waals book My name is Leon that swayed me to buy it. Chocolate for the ears as one reviewer describe a good narrator.

Lenny

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