Publication Date: 01/09/2022 ISBN: 9780571368778 Category:

Rising to the Surface

Lenny Henry

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication Date: 01/09/2022 ISBN: 9780571368778 Category:
Hardback

£20.00

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The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s.

‘Moving and ebullient’ Daily Telegraph
‘Relayed with characteristic exuberance and self-deprecation’ Guardian

Rising to the Surface traces Lenny Henry’s career through the 80s and 90s. The 16-year-old who won a talent competition, now has to navigate his way through the seas of professional comedy, learning his craft through sheer graft and hard work.

We follow Lenny through a period of great creativity – prize-winning tv programmes, summer seasons across Britain, the starring role in a Hollywood film, and stand-up gigs in New York. But with each rise there is a fall, the most traumatic being the death of his mother. But by the end of the book he has been able to rise through a sea of troubles and breaks out to the surface to accept the Golden Rose of Montreaux for his work in television.

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