The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by Mark LogueMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This prompted me to enjoy again the muted yet expressive performance of Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue in the film, so maybe the enjoyment of one is pushing up my rating of this. Still, well narrated and featuring archival audio of King George VI this is an excellent audiobook to enjoy. It is not what the film is based on. Both the film and this book draw on the author's grandfather's diaries, but this work was completed after the film was started. It goes where the film does not: The autodidactic Logue's Australian beginnings as a speech therapist and the long years of friendship between Logue and the monarch after the events of the film.
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