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Virallinen nimi: Kemper, Margaret Joan Sinclair Trudeau
Muut nimet: Margaret Trudeau
Syntymäaika: 1948-09-10
Sukupuoli: female
Kansalaisuus: Canada
Syntymäpaikka: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Asuinpaikat: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Koulutus: Simon Fraser University
Ammatit: Honorary president of WaterCan
Advocate for reduced stigma of mental illness
Motivational speaker
Suhteet: Trudeau, Pierre Elliott (husband|divorced)

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Certain Woman of an Age Tekijä: Margaret Trudeau

Spring 2020;

First Audible Original of the year that if I could trade back it would have gone back int the space of the first twenty minutes. I did still finish it, because it only had an extra hour after that, but I did not find myself enjoying, or laughing at any of it. It's nice to have some context on the Candian Prime Minister's mother in her own words, but I have no urge to pursue reading anything else she's written/played in/spoke at.

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wanderlustlover | 1 muu arvostelu | Dec 27, 2022 |

Certain Woman of an Age Tekijä: Margaret Trudeau

Mental Health Advocacy as Stand-up Stage Show
Review of the Audible Original audiobook (March 5, 2020)

Once I was wearing very high, very fabulous heels when I met the Queen of England on one of her visits to Canada. I was standing on the tarmac when she got off the plane and we shook hands and I went down into a curtsy and I started wobbling a little bit, and oh-oh, I was down and it suddenly became crystal clear that I was not getting up, and without a flicker of expression on her face the Queen strengthened her arm and she pulled me up to my feet. Her grip was iron. I might still be there today if she hadn't lent me her strength. And she never stopped smiling the whole time. - Margaret Trudeau in Certain Woman of an Age

I particularly liked the above anecdote as it was entirely new to me and because it displays very well both Margaret Trudeau's good-spirited self-deprecatory humour and Queen Elizabeth II's solid quiet strength when under public scrutiny. I enjoyed this 73 minute stage performance which consists of Trudeau's wide range of public and private anecdotes which she delivers in an uplifting tale of resilience and survival. Trudeau has been an advocate for mental health issues since publically revealing her bipolar diagnosis in 2006.

Certain Woman of an Age is one of the free Audible Originals for Audible members in March 2020. It is available to everyone for a standard price.

Trivia and Link
You can read an interview with Margaret Trudeau that was concurrent with her New York staging of the show in September 2019 at Margaret Trudeau has the last laugh in Certain Woman of an Age.… (lisätietoja)

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alanteder | 1 muu arvostelu | Mar 6, 2020 |

The Time of Your Life: Choosing A Vibrant Joyful… Tekijä: Margaret Trudeau

Margaret Trudeau's previous book "Changing my mind," was a bestseller; this one may not be because it talks specifically about and to one group of people and that is those in their third age. This is a down-to-earth account of her own and her friends' experiences as Seniors. She has talked to experts in the fields and gives good pointers that will be of use to other seniors and their families. The fact that she was a First Lady of Canada may not add credibility to the views but certainly makes for interesting reading. She quotes widely from various sources such as "Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." Her words such as, "It wasn't the stuff itself that held me prisoner . It was the unhealthy attachment that I'd cultivated to the stuff," that are likely to resonate with me for a long long time. A book well worth reading.… (lisätietoja)

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Writermala | May 12, 2015 |

BEYOND REASON Tekijä: Margaret Trudeau

Margaret Trudeau is not known for living a cautious life. She blazed onto the national stage in 1971 as the ravishing 22-year-old bride of the 51-year-old Canadian Prime Minister. Their unlikely union, which produced three sons, ended in 1977 amid lurid headlines that Pierre Trudeau's erratic wife had gone off to photograph The Rolling Stones. In her 1979 autobiography, she fills in the details of her encounters with The Rolling Stones and other celebrities, her "long tunnel of darkness" experienced during her marriage and her affair with an unnamed man, later identified as senator Edward Kennedy.

I really enjoyed this book; this was the third time that I have read it and I will be keeping it on my bookshelf to read again some time. I give Beyond Reason an A+! and have put Margaret Trudeau's two other books, Consequences and Changing my Mind on my Wish List.… (lisätietoja)