David Niven is remembered as one of Britain’s best-loved actors. David Niven’s first volume of autobiography, which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. The book takes readers back to David Niven’s childhood days, his humiliating expulsion from school and to his army years and wartime service. After the war, he returned to America and there came his Hollywood success in films such as "Wuthering Heights" and "Around the World in 80 Days".

          Davin Niven – humorist, athlete, actor and gentleman extraordinary, a gay buccaneer who has painted his portrait in hilarious colour. He has had one of the most varied lives, as well as one of the most spectacular film careers, of our time. Expelled from school, baptized by the Army and a London whore, David amusingly recounts his early adventures.

          In America, where he was treated with endearing hospitality, he became a bootlegger, an organizer of indoor Pony Races, and finally, through a piece of luck which would seem impossible if it were not true, he sailed his way into Hollywood studios and stardom.

          His wartime experiences (he served with the legendary "Phantom") are treated with characteristic modesty; and thereafter his return to Hollywood leads to a rather chequered career (including being fired by Goldwyn and winning an Oscar) and also to the greatest tragedy of his life – the death of his beautiful first wife.

          This is one of the most amusing, outspoken, self-revealing, warm-hearted and touching auto-biographies ever to be published.