“Simply wonderful… enchanting..glorious. Tommy Jessop’s talent, warmth, kindness and courage glow from the pages of this enchanting memoir. I can’t recommend it highly enough.” Stephen Fry
“Tommy Jessop makes the world a better place. Everyone needs to hear his voice” Mark Haddon
A Life worth Living by Tommy Jessop
Acting, Activism and Everything Else
#29th February – lucky leap year date – a brilliant day for my #memoir #A Life Worth Living by #Tommy Jessop to be published in #paperback and become a #bestseller! I hope people will find it a really #good read, and will find it #uplifting. Thank you #Stephen Fry and #Mark Haddon for your really kind #reviews.
My #memoir takes you behind the scenes in #BBC #Line of Duty, #Casualty, #Holby and other #TV and #film stories, to the #BAFTAs, #National TV Awardshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F7c7aGTL_A, meeting celebrities like #HughGrant, #Sally Phillips, #Vicky McClure, #Kelly Macdonald, dancing the Rite of Spring at #Covent Garden with members of #The Royal Ballet and lots of other people with #Down syndrome, playing Hamlet and enjoying his infamous speeches, to speaking in #Parliament and campaigning for better #healthcare through my work on stage and on TV for #Panorama.
I talk about #hope and #friendship and what it can be like living with #Down syndrome and share a few #facts and #puns.
I’m a #Man on a Mission to show that life with #Down syndrome can be exciting.
It is a Life Worth Living.
“Simply wonderful. The most instantly lovable and engaging personality to emerge from a book that I have encountered in decades. A voice that is clear, companionable and often gloriously comical. Tommy Jessop’s talent, warmth, kindness and courage glow from the pages of this enchanting memoir. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”#Stephen Fry
“Tommy Jessop makes the world a better place.
Everyone needs to hear his voice.”#Mark Haddon
“The kind of vital read that breeds compasion and empathy”#iPaper
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