Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied With String

Now for the first time Michael Crawford, one of Britain's best-loved and most internationally successful stars, tells his life story in his own inimitable style.

By turns hilarious, revelatory and desperately sad, here is the autobiography of the man whose successes, such as Hello Dolly!., Some Mothers Do' Ave'Em and The Phantom of the Opera, have made him a national institution. 

The story of the true identity of his father, which is behind this book's title, leads into an evocative depiction of his tender childhood years. Whilst all the men were away at war, he was surrounded by loving women.

For him this was an idyllic wartime childhood, but the return of the men in peacetime signaled darker times to come...