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Writing with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London, and her coming-of-age as a model and nascent actress in New York. Living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid on a horse, Huston was raised on an Irish estate to whichbetween moviesher father brought his array of extraordinary friends, from Carson McCullers and John Steinbeck to Peter OToole and Marlon Brando. Every morning, Anjelica and her brother visited their father while he took his breakfast in bed. What news hed ask. Id seen him the night before, Anjelica recalls. There wasnt much to report. So she became a storyteller. In London, where she lives with her mother and brother in the early sixties when her parents separate, Huston encounters the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac.