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My Amy
- The Life We Shared
- Narrated by: Tyler James
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
Read by the author, Tyler James.
Written with a searing honesty, My Amy is an evocative portrait of unbreakable lifelong friendship – and a devastating study into fame, addiction and self-sabotage.
Only one person knows what really happened to Amy, other than Amy herself. He is Tyler James, Amy’s best friend from the age of thirteen. They met at stage school as two insecure outsiders, formed an instant connection and lived together from their late teenage years right up until the day she died, aged just twenty-seven.
Tyler was there by her side through it all. From their carefree early years touring together to the creation of the multiple Grammy-winning Back To Black, which she wrote on their kitchen floor. From her volatile marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil through her escalating addictions, self-harm and eating disorders as the toxic nature of fame warped Amy’s reality. For the last three years of her life, Tyler was with her every day when she’d beaten drugs and was close to beating alcoholism too. He also knew better than anyone the real Amy Winehouse who the tabloid-reading public rarely saw – the hilarious, uncompromising force-of-nature busy taking care of everyone else.
We all think we know what happened to Amy Winehouse, but we don’t. This definitive insider’s story tells us all, finally, the truth.
'Heartbreaking' – The Times
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- JMBN
- 04-08-21
Hilarious, tragic and always honest
Never felt so affected by an audiobook before. You made me feel like i was right there with the two of you, in the good times and bad. You humanised and celebrated your best friend in this book and I can only say thank you, Tyler for loving Amy when everyone else had practically given up. Congratulations on 13 years of sobriety (I've just hit 10 months myself). What a brilliant listen that was.
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- Matt
- 20-04-24
Tyler's honest love for Amy
Tyler's voice has been the album that Amy would have eventually written. One about friendship, struggles with fame, addiction and sobriety. I don't think you don't even need to know who Amy was to love this story and to acknowledge how unconditional love is what we are all after. I think Tyler loved this way.
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- Joanne
- 10-07-21
A heartbreaking story of codependancy
This is the saddest book I have ever heard, it was heartbreaking. It couldn't be narrated by anyone but Tyler and you can feel his despair and the times he was clinging on to hope - just. I wish Tyler had followed his own star earlier on instead of sacrificing his best years - although he won't see it that way. An excellent book deserving of all the praise.
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- Mrs K M Hall
- 26-09-22
Wow
What a truly remarkable book.
A love story, a story of true friendship and a revelation to me about addiction.
What a man and friend Tyler
is. What an incredible human Amy was.
Thank you for writing this. It moved me to feel things I’ve buried myself for years & I cannot begin to imagine how it must’ve been for the author.
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- Anastacia
- 25-10-22
beautiful story of love
This book is heartbreakingly beautiful. It's raw, messy and truthful. It's real life and love.
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- A Nesbitt
- 20-08-24
This is Raw
This was a harrowing read. Very sad. In parts I found it so disrespectful the way they treated people. Places etc do badly but it was the drugs. It was just car crash but it was drugs and drink. I am glad Tyler has survived to tell the story. He really loved Amy and he will be there to tell who she really was. A must read. So sad as she was amazing but she was always going to die young. I am amazed he kept her alive so long xx
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- Anonymous User
- 28-08-24
my Amy
fantastic book, really enjoyed it and found it really sad and felt for Tyler and her family
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- T. Graham
- 26-06-21
inevitable but tragic
I loved this book.Tyler went through hell himself but still looked after his best friend every day. It shows that drug and alcohol addiction is not a lifestyle choice but an illness. Amy did not have the strength of mind or body to get herself out of this horrendous situation. It did not help that everyone around her was suffering too.
And the people responsible for looking out for her let her down so badly.
The record industry needs to take a long hard look at itself. It's very much got blood on it's hands.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-07-21
Super but emotional listen.
An amazing true story, very emotional and a must listen..I enjoyed the book and it would be something I would listen to again..
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- Anonymous User
- 12-09-21
True friends
Tyler read and wrote this with so much love and feeling. It was truly a remarkable account of true friendship and love.
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