{"product_id":"9780007435074","title":"My Week With Marilyn","description":"\u003cp\u003eA delightfully comic and touchingly romantic interlude in which Colin Clark describes for the first time what happened between Marilyn Monroe and himself during the missing week in The Prince, the Showgirl and Me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, fresh from Eton and Oxford, the 23-year-old Colin Clark (son of ‘Lord Clark of Civilisation’, brother of maverick Tory MP and diarist Alan) worked as a humble ‘gofer’ on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that disastrously united Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty years on, his diary account was chosen as book of the year by Jilly Cooper, Joan Collins and others. But one week was missing. This is the story of that week, a delicious idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to escape from the pressures of stardom. Her new husband Arthur Miller was away, and the coast was clear for Colin to introduce her to the pleasures of British life. How he ended up sharing her bed is a tale too rich to summarise!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis top-rated autobiography paints a vivid picture of a week that was lost in time, a week that was both a delightfully comic and touchingly romantic interlude. It's a tale that's too rich to summarise, a tale of a young man introducing a desperate star to the pleasures of British life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Douglas Thompson (Devil's Coin), Mike Rothmiller (Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders), Anthony Summers (Goddess), Donald Spoto (The Dark Side of Genius), and Joan Collins (My Unapologetic Diaries).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colin Clark, Read by Eddie Redmayne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889241313429,"sku":"9780007435074","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007435074.png?v=1777422857","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007435074","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}