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Spare

By: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
Narrated by: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Sunday Times Memoir of the Year 2023

It was one of the images of the twentieth century: two boys, walking behind the coffin of their mother, Princess Diana. Billions wondered what the princes must be feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on.

For Harry, this is that story at last.


Before then, Prince Harry was known as the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. But grief changed everything.

At twenty-one, he joined the Army but was soon more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn't find true love.

Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple's romance and wedding. But in the face of sustained press intrusion, Harry saw no other way to protect his wife and children than to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try had been his mother. . .

Written with raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is full of insight, revelation and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

'Compellingly artful... a blockbuster memoir' The New Yorker

'The most insightful royal book in a generation' Financial Times

'A rattling page-turner... As a personal insight into one boy's life in an extraordinary spotlight, it may never be better' Sunday Times

©2023 Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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Critic Reviews

Unflinching, introspective and well-written
The most insightful royal book in a generation
This is an extraordinary and important book
Richly detailed… beautifully written
Compellingly artful… [a] blockbuster memoir
A triumph
Honest, insightful and vulnerable
A fast-paces, quickfire account… the book crackles like a burning log
All stars
Most relevant
Beautifully written and truly fascinating account of an extraordinary life.
What a breath of fresh air for those of us who are tired of being spoon fed false narratives by a greedy and immoral media machine.

LOVED it! Who better to tell the story of his life than the man himself?

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I have to say that Spare is a very interesting listen - especially being Prince Harry’s own words read (and in parts sung) by him.
He genuinely seems like a right dude. The type of person that under normal circumstances you would meet and instantly become mates.

The lives of those in such an institution are just so far removed from a regular existence. That aside, we are all still human and share so many similarities. As Harry says, their blood is just as red as everyone else’s. We all deserve the same human rights and being born into a public life (or marrying into one) does not wipe those rights away. Whilst many across the globe have their opinions on Harry and Meghan and the whole situation, I applaud them on going it alone, despite the family fall out and consequences, and commend them in putting their honest accounts of events out into the world to explain how and why it got this way.
The constant public speculation and twisting of things must be just torture.
I hope that they get the peace that they deserve.

Exceptionally honest account

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I enjoyed it, I probably wouldn't have finished so quickly if Harry hadn't been the narrator, I couldn't stop listening. I did feel he winged a bit over some things, but he got his greivences across, he bared his soul, and for that I respected him for telling it how it was him. He is a sensitive soul, too much so to be able to play the Royal game as William can quite easily it seems. I hope there will be a second book.

The story held my interest.

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What an incredibly honest and heartfelt insight into what it was like for Harry & Meghan. I loved it and have started listening for the second time.

Peace

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This book helped me process so much of grief I didn’t know I had. Thank you for being an endless source of inspiration and hope.

Undaunted

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