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Rising to the Surface traces Lenny Henrys career through the 80s and 90s The 16yearold who won a talent competition now has to navigate his way through the seas of professional comedy learning his craft through sheer graft and hard work
We follow Lenny through a period of great creativity prizewinning tv programs summer seasons across Britain the starring role in a Hollywood film standup gigs in New York and a gala wedding to Dawn French But with each rise there is a fall the most traumatic being the death of his mother But by the end of the book he has been able to rise through a sea of troubles and breaks out to the surface to accept the Golden Rose of Montreaux for his work in television