Paula Yates: the Autobiography

by Paula Yates

Book Overview

As a TV personality, author and mother of three, Paula Yates in rarely out of the tabloids and her romance with INXS star Michael Hutchence, her breast implants and pregnancy have caused a media... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0722533276
• ISBN13: 9780722533277
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Read

Talented Paula Yates shows her comic writing skills to perfection in this "autobiography". Perhaps not the full story, but a very good read. Yates reveals herself to be highly intelligent, hard working, a devoted mother & a survivor of a Grimms Fairy Tale childhood. Sadly, her survival skills weren't up to the final twists & turns of her life. After reading this, I think it's a pity she didn't write more novels - her ability to set scenes with a few sharp sentences, her great comic timing, & undoubted talent are apparent on every page. It's a tribute to her that the ghastly parenting she received didn't seem to effect her ability to create a loving family herself. You won't be disappointed if you buy this book.

Fabulous

I bought this book years ago, while waiting in Heathrow to board a plane back to the U.S. Not only was it fantastic airplane reading, it's also a book I've reread several times. I'd been a fan of Paula's writing back when she had a column for one of the English glossies. She wrote with verve and fantastic intelligence about life, fun, and the price of beans. From an unconventional upbringing, she sprang, full-blown, as the quintessential rock pixie who lived several lifetimes in her one. Paula, rest in peace. And readers, read this book! Not only does it chronicle an amazing era in rock and roll, it's also written with an immense intelligence and sense of fun.