‘A kind of magic drug’: Miriam Margolyes will tell you anything

The second quantity of her memoir, Oh Miriam! (Hachette, $34.99), is each bit as profound and profane as the primary, This A lot Is True. Snippets from her youth in Oxford, the one little one of Jewish mother and father, her love of theatre, first movie roles, popping out as a lesbian, enthralling business gossip and a few surprising anecdotes – it is a rollicking learn, and all of the extra putting when you think about the calibre of productions she’s been concerned in, the folks she’s labored with, the circles she’s moved in.