Making It So

A Memoir

Patrick Stewart

Having read it

★★☆☆☆

Well, for an actor that clearly likes delivering others’ lines, delivering his own in this book was a dull affair – despite the few observations that weren’t weighed down by the stage, film or his relationships... sorry, infidelities!

Tales of his early years in and around family life in Mirfield, Yorkshire had some interest but, to be honest, the rest of the book beyond the first few chapters was flat and a little repetitive; absent of compelling narrative, it all came across as a bit trying, shallow and somewhat privileged to be honest despite his roots or even because of them maybe in some kind of attempt to be seen as ‘a normal bloke’.

Anyway, skipped and skimmed from his early days as what I did read from then on was mostly anecdotal, a bit navel-gazing and not really that interesting.

A good passage?

And so, another divorce. I felt stupid and responsible. My twenty-three-year marriage to Sheila wasn’t a mistake but a case of a loving couple growing apart. However, I didn’t feel the same about my three-year marriage to Wendy. Still, I had cheated on my wife with a younger woman – again – and there is no getting around that. And just like my affair with Jenny Hetrick, my time with Lisa Dillon would also prove to be relatively short.