Spare
By Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
- Genre
- Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
- Publisher
- Random House (Penguin Random House)
- Publication year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 9780593593806
Spare is a memoir by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, written with the ghostwriter J. R. Moehringer and published by Random House in January 2023 in a simultaneous global release. It became, per Guinness World Records, the fastest-selling non-fiction book of all time and a #1 New York Times...
Few memoirs arrive with as much noise as Spare, and few survive it as prose; Prince Harry's account, shaped by the ghostwriter J. R. Moehringer, is far stranger and more literary than the tabloid extracts suggested. Structured around the word a second son hears all his life - the 'spare' to an heir - it moves from a mother's death and a boy's frozen grief to war, fame and estrangement. Whatever readers make of its grievances, the book is a genuine study of how institutions and the press can deform a family. intendle recommends it as a cultural document of rare candor, and as an unexpectedly well-built piece of storytelling. It became the fastest-selling non-fiction book of all time, a fact that says as much about our appetite for the monarchy as about the man. Confessional, aggrieved and compulsively readable.