This is not the book I thought it would be; I assumed that with a movie tie in book cover this was the book that inspired the 2010 Academy Award winning movie The King’s Speech but instead it is a book written by Logue’s grandson after being approached by film producers and inspired to learn more about his father’s father. However, it is a fairly unattached biography that leads me to believe co-author Conradi was the primary writer and the duo traded on the younger Logue’s name […]
Focuses as much on the teacher as the speaker
I picked this up thinking it was the basis for the Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush movie, which I liked quite a bit. It’s not–it was actually written by a descendant of Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), whose interest in his grandfather (deceased 12 years when Mark was born) was piqued by a phone call from the movie’s producers. He began digging through his family’s papers, even going so far as to pull a box of archive material down from a cousin’s attic. Here he found carbon copies […]