My Mother Prefers Robots (A Theory)
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ISBN: 9789367952351ASIN: 936795235X
Ever feel like your life is an audition you never signed up for? Imagine growing up in a household where vacuuming was a competitive sport, dishwashing felt like Hell’s Kitchen: Hygiene Edition, drawer-opening techniques that could seemingly rival a Buckingham Palace heist… and coughing? That is practically treason. Packed with dry wit and painfully relatable moments, this hilarious memoir explores what it’s like to grow up under the reign of a matriarch who holds everyone to impossible standards—except herself. Spoiler: even robots would struggle to pass her test.

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is a British actress. Born in British India to English parents, at the age of six Christie moved to England where she attended boarding school. In 1961, she began her acting career in a BBC television series, and the following year, she had her first major film role in a romantic comedy. In 1965, she became known to international audiences as the model "Diana Scott" in the film Darling. That same year she played the part of "Lara" in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago. A pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.