I did not enjoy Dutch Girl, Robert Matzen's biography of Audrey Hepburn's years spent in Europe during WWII. However, that didn't stop me from picking up this book about Hepburn's life after her career in films. While I appreciated the effort to highlight all the good works Hepburn did through UNICEF over the years, I really cannot stand a docudrama-type biography. Just like Dutch Girl, Matzen adds flourishes to his writing that make the book read like an historical fiction novel. That's a fairly popular trend in recent years regarding biographies, but I immediately am suspect when a writer does that. How are we to know what is real and not real in a NON-FICTION book?

I wish someone would write a comprehensive biography of Audrey Hepburn's whole life without embellishment--truly she led an extraordinary life and was a good human being, too. Oh, and she acted in some movies and plays, too.