Hello listeners, it's Miranda Hart here. I am with News. I have a new book called I haven't been

entirely honest with you. I know. What an intriguing title. You see, in the last decade, I've had a

rather unexpected time with some very challenging lows, though some surprising joys so there's fun

along the way, but I've learned a lot about living and feeling well, all in the book. My hope is that

my story might help your story.

Also, I narrated the audiobook so you can get my lovely voice

and listened to, I haven't been entirely honest with you now,

wherever you get your audiobooks.

You've got to have a purpose, have a vision.

I was very fortunate that I stumble on my vision. I mean, as you know,

I was born in 1947 in Austria after the Second World War. And I didn't really like Austria

when I grew up. I couldn't wait to get out of there. I couldn't see myself becoming a farmer or a worker in a factory or anything like that.

Even though my parents wanted me to stay there and have a normal life.

My father wanted me to become a police officer like he was.

My mother wanted me just to stay there and marry a girl with the name of Heidi, hopefully, and have a bunch of kids and run around like the Van Trapp family and the sound of music.

But that was their vision, not mine.

My vision was totally different. I felt that I was born for something special, for something unique, for something big.

Then one day I went to school, I remember I was 11 years old, and they showed a documentary

about America.

And there they showed in this documentary the huge skyscrapers, the high rises,

the huge bridges, the six-lane freeways, the huge cars with the wings sticking out,

and all of this stuff in the same myself, that's where I want to be.

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