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Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self [Hardcover]

Joseph Galliano
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Book Description

15 Oct 2009
If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say?

In Dear Me, some of the world's best loved personalities have written just such a letter. Dear Me includes letters from three knights, a handful of Oscar winners, a bevy of Baftas, an intrepid explorer, a few teenage pop stars, an avid horticulturalist, pages and pages of bestselling authors, a dishy doctor, a full credit of film directors, a lovey of top actors, a giggle of comedians and an Archbishop! The letters range from the compassionate to the shocking via hilarity and heartbreak, but they all have one thing in common: they offer a unique insight into the teenager who would grow up to be.... Stephen Fry, Annie Lennox, Paul O'Grady, Jackie Collins, Fay Weldon, Alan Carr, Peter Kay, Debbie Harry, Brenda Blethyn , Jonathan Ross, Liz Smith, Will Young, Alison Moyet, Rosanne Cash, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Yoko Ono, Emma Thompson… to name but a few.

It is the PERFECT GIFT for your mum and dad, sister or brother, gran or granddad or someone who is a teenager, even turning 16

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  • Hardcover: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (15 Oct 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1847377661
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847377661
  • Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 1.8 x 18.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 11,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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`A brilliantly simple idea, executed with finesse' --Time Out

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars For everyone 4 Nov 2009
By E. Ball
Format:Hardcover
Even if you've picked up this book just for one name you've excitedly spotted in amongst the sundry mass of contributors (from Trisha Goddard to Simon Callow), I guarantee you'll get sucked in and won't emerge until you've read every reassurance, scolding and tease directed over the imaginary bridge through time. Many of the letters delight in the idea of "predicting" our past selves' future (Julian Clary: "it's hard to swallow, but in a few years time you will swan around in black rubber consuming men like After Eight Mints") or else trying to change them (Danny Wallace: "buy shares in Google. That should sort just about everything out").

Just don't get involved in this on a philosophical level, or you'll wonder if the contributors really are imagining time travel or if they're just indulgently telling us, the readers, about their childhoods. Still, most (if not all) of them are playing along, meaning that there's some real snippets of sentiment. You'll be moved. You also might crack a rib laughing.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars What would YOU say to your younger self? 28 Oct 2009
By John M
Format:Hardcover
As the previous reviewer said, it will make you laugh, it will make you cry. But above all, it inspired me to write a letter to MY younger self.

I can relate to a lot of the celebrities in the book as they are people I have grown up seeing on screen. It makes you feel some affinity with them, especially as they seem to have had the same perils and fun times growing up as I did.

The only reason for giving four stars and not 5 is that some of the letters are handwritten and a little difficult to decipher.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous! 5 Feb 2010
By R. Head
Format:Hardcover
As soon as I got this I ended up reading the whole thing the same day!
It is just so insightful and inspiring and quite funny in places!
I'm 16 years old and I can actually relate to some of the things in the book...
it's such an amazing idea- love it! =)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down
Brilliant idea and brilliant book - one of the best I've seen in a while. Some of the letters are funny, others sweet and others really interesting. Read more
Published 7 days ago by K Horgan
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting Book Dear Me: A Letter to my Sixteen Year Old Self
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Only problem was the print was sometimes too small for easy reading for me. Very interesting people interviewed.
Published 3 months ago by Anne Drayton
5.0 out of 5 stars Book
The 16 year old girl I bought this for loves it and has read it twice in 6 weeks. N
Published 3 months ago by Mr D
5.0 out of 5 stars Dear Me Letter to my sixteen year old self
A present for my 16 year old nephew for Christmas. I browsed through the pages and it looks good reading
Published 5 months ago by Jean Skillicorn
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book, more please!
I bought this book for my Nephew's forthcoming birthday and i have to say it is a good as i hoped it would be. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Emily
5.0 out of 5 stars "They are just the same as us!"
They really are, aren't they?! All of these celebs: revered for something famous and infamous, experienced of time and wise, young and beginning to paint their mark in life, very... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Tweedle Deed
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect gift
I bought this on the strength of reviews, having typed a search for 'gift for 16 year old girl'. This was for my God-daughter's birthday. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Jezza
4.0 out of 5 stars Cute.
Bought this as a birthday present for a friend turning 30 - inspired him to write the sweetest letter to his 16 year old self!
Published on 21 Feb 2011 by SK
4.0 out of 5 stars Time travel can happen without a Tardis!
Joseph Galliano's idea to contact lots of the great and the good and ask them to write to their sixteen-year-old selves has worked very well. Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2011 by G. R. Arckless
5.0 out of 5 stars What a nice surprise! Clever!
Trying to get an original present this book came through the search and what a lovely, lovely surprise. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2010 by E. Pierce-jones
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