Then Again

Diane Keaton starred in some of the most memorable movies of the past fifty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Reds, Baby Boom, The First Wives Club and Something’s Gotta Give. She was the recipient of many awards, including a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.

‘A brilliant memoir … What an exceptionally tender book’ Antonia Quirk, Sunday Times‘Just what we wanted from the Annie Hall star, an autobiography as quirky, funny and mannered as her best-known roles’ Nigel Andrews, Financial Times, Books of the Year‘Her rambling, endearing book is not short of glamorous names, nor does it scorn ambition and fame. But she shares the stage with her family and most particularly with her mother, Dorothy Hall, as co-star’ Philip French, Observer‘Fans will relish her accounts of relationships with Woody Allen, Al Pacino and Warren Beatty … The anecdotes are excellent, and the self-modesty not false’ Mark Sanderson, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year‘Beautifully written’ Women’s Own‘A very generous, charming, old-fashioned and strangely self-effacing account of a life lived in the spotlight’ Sarah Vine, The Times‘Then Again, which is about Keaton’s relationship with her collage-making mother, Dorothy Hall, is itself a collage. Extracts from Dorothy’s striking letters and journals are arranged in a pattern alongside Keaton’s own reflections on her mother’s life … Keaton dismantles the idea of the perfect American family to then build it up again’ Francis Wilson, Telegraph