This week sees the much anticipated release of Anjelica Huston’s memoir. The first of her two part autobiography, ‘A Story Lately Told; Coming Of Age In Ireland, London and New York’ documents Huston’s eventful rise from director’s daughter to screen star.

Reading the press around this release it seems there is not much Huston hasn’t packed into her 62 years – modelling for Vogue, being shot by Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton, partying with Mick Jagger, her mother dying in a car crash and an attempted suicide alongside her iconic film roles in Prizzi’s Honor and The Addams Family.

The book also focuses on her high profile love affairs, most famously her turbulent 17 year relationship with Jack Nicholson. “When Jack and I lived together, every time the phone rang it was for him. It was difficult. It felt like his world and it was.”

With both her grandfather and her father winning Oscars, as well as her, Huston is steeped in Hollywood lore. Glamorous and classic, she lived a life that stars of today could only dream of. The length of her success is admirable, and in an interview with The Sunday Times Magazine she claims, “I’m in it for myself, and I’m a woman. So yeah, I’m a feminist.” With no ghost writer, Huston has found the process of writing her memoir invigorating, “I feel like a chapter of my life is over, and part of writing the book, of this moment for me, is to say ‘Ok – that’s that.'” We wonder what the next installment will entail.

‘A Story Lately Told; Coming Of Age In Ireland, London and New York’ is available now on www.amazon.com

Text by Beccy Hill

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