the princess diaries volume viii princess on the brink

That was my springboard for working on this.Īlongside Reese Witherspoon in The Morning Show. I visited the Anne Frank museum, obviously, but also went to Miep’s old apartment and cycled the same routes as her. It’s a city that operates in a very specific way – everyone cycles everywhere, it’s built on waterways – so I immersed myself in how it feels to live there.

The first thing I did was get my butt over to Amsterdam. I was offered the role on Holocaust Memorial Day, which felt kind of special, but was genuinely like: Who is that? Nor did I know about the occupation of the Netherlands and the Dutch resistance. I’d read Anne Frank’s diary as a kid, and I’m Jewish myself, so you grow up with this weight of history running through your family, but I knew nothing about Miep Gies. Were you familiar with Miep Gies’s story ? She now plays Hermine “Miep” Gies in miniseries A Small Light, based on the true story of the young woman who hid the Frank family during the second world war and preserved Anne’s diary. On TV, she’s starred in The Morning Show and Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love. Subsequent film roles include The King of Staten Island and Mary Shelley, where she met her fiance, actor Douglas Booth. In 2016 she was Bafta-nominated for The Diary of a Teenage Girl and shortlisted for a British independent film award for playing Princess Margaret in A Royal Night Out. This plot was much more active than a lot of the others though, so I give it props for that.I sobel “Bel” Powley, 31, was born in west London. The the book got a little sad, Mia is trying to deal with the fact that Michael wants to better himself and move internationally to work on a project - and it is sad because it does not really click for her that he is doing it for both himself and to better himself for her.Īs most these books are, this one again was funny, but as we get further into the series I wanted and expected so see more growth out of Mia and did not get a lot of that. I found this to be annoying, Mia is privileged and normally has her problems solved for her by the help of others, but she was really whiny about this and just because you think you are great at something doesn't mean you shouldn't want to start at the beginning.

Mia is still acting like a child in the beginning of this book when she realizes that she is put in the wrong classes, but really she is over-reacting, as always, and I think that she needs to realize it is all really for the best - sadly she doesn't. If you have not read the other books in the series, this review might be a bit confusing.

As she overthinks everything, all of it falls apart around her and she has to pick up the pieces, learn to deal, or let it all get to her and she does many of these.

In this installment, Mia is still a mess - which is kind of the fun of reading these books.

The princess diaries volume viii princess on the brink