Margot Fonteyn Author:Margot Fonteyn Margot Fonteyn's autobiography is a revelation of a direct, warm-hearted person who believes that artists must take their art altogether seriously -- and themselves seriously not at all; who finds her own fame difficult to grasp; who is worthy of what her audiences feel for her. Fonteyn is not only admired but loved. Her book --in its decenc... more »y, its generosity, its sense of fun-- makes clear why.
For a long time a mystery even to herself, her life seemed more real onstage than off -- until her marriage with the joyful man Tito Arias, the man on whom her life is centred. In this moving self-revelatory autobiography she attempts with touching honesty to define herself.« less