By Myself and Then Some - Tapa dura

Lauren Bacall's pacy memoir reveals a stylish, intelligent and very unusual cinema star (Scotland on Sunday)

A Blockbuster... You'll love this book. It's hard to put down. (New York Daily News)

Lauren Bacall BY MYSELF packs an emotional wallup. Hollywood never turned out a love story up to the level of hers and Bogie's. (The Washington Post)

The epitome of grace, independence and wit, there is no modern day equivalent to Bacall (Jewish Telegraph)

On the evidence of her memoirs she remains a fantastic character - honest, unsparing and easy to adore (Mail on Sunday)

A book that is full of raw need and love and humour and pain. (The Chicago Tribune)

Her elegance is no charade. Her class begins where real class must. In her spirit. (New York Times)

What a trooper! What amazing memories of and links to a glamorous and vanished era... (Daily Mail)

She was the kind of sex symbol a fella could swap wisecracks with and then bring home to mother (Time magazine)

Bacall's unghosted autobiography is hardly new...but the extra "And Then Some" section brings it up to her recent 80th birthday, and an assertion that, as the Sondheim songs puts it, I'm Still Here (Sunday Times)