Charlotte Church Book:

Editorial Review:
At fifteen, Charlotte Church has already lived a celebrated life. She has performed before the Queen, a president, and the Pope, sold millions of albums, charmed TV talk show hosts, and appeared on the covers of dozens of magazines. Yet Charlotte still goes to school, gets good grades, and goes shopping with her friends in her hometown of Cardiff, Wales. Now meet the girl behind the internationally known soprano. In a voice as down to earth as her singing is angelic, Charlotte talks about growing up in the limelight, the lessons she has learned, and her dreams for the future.

Voice of an Angel: My Life So Far Reviews:
Charlotte's Photographic Memory
2008-11-03 - After having glanced over the other reviews, one can explain a lot of the negative impressions of Charlotte Church's autobiography, the "sillyness," the self-indulgent tone, that it seems to go on and on, "the heavy sense of editorial handling that imbues the text" (Publisher's Weekly) when it's clear she wrote it herself, by the fact that, as she says herself near the end of the book, she casually mentions that she has a photographic memory. This admission lands like a bombshell and explains, among other things, how she could have come so far in such a short amount of time. I would recommend this book to any young reader who's hungry to see just how it is someone their age can achieve such a degree of success and still be a kid--just have a photographic memory.

GOOD voice ,BAD writing.
2005-12-28 - Charlotte Church can sing. what she Can't do is write. in fact I'm not all that sure she wrote all of this book herself. I think its more then likely that she had a ghost writer to help her. this book does give some good info about charlottes life and early career, but there is really WAY to much about her family. she also says that she read wuthering heights by Jane Austen. right. bottom line: get her CDs not her book. our get this book from the library like I did.

It's cute but the publishers erred
2005-06-11 - I bought this book recently at the Dollar Tree for $1 because I was curious. I read it and thought it was cute. BUT, that having been said, I believe the publishers really erred in how they originally released this book; they took it FAR too seriously for a "biography" purportedly written by a 15-year-old!

First of all, the book as released was too expensive. The audience to which it should have been geared was pre-teen girls, unlikely to pay $22.95 for a (thin) hardcover book; it should have been released directly to paperback. Secondly, since the book was written in a chatty diary format, it would have been appropriate and more entertaining to have had portions of it in Charlotte's own handwriting (assuming it's not too dreadful), and other portions done like a scrapbook, particularly the tales of her travels.

Given how Charlotte's life has changed since she wrote it, this book is also a nostalgic read. The "angelic" little girl with the lovely clear soprano voice seems to be long gone at this point, replaced by a "pop tart" who appears to want to be in the mold of a Britney Spears or a Christina Aguilara.

Music does flow in her blood
2004-03-25 - After reading this book, you'll know what music is to Charlotte; it's in her. I thought the book was well written. I don't know why some people seem to be passionately against her. One reviewer says Charlotte doesn't write about her music, but that's not true. Most of this book IS about her music! As a matter of fact, I bought "Voice of an Angel" after reading this book. I only wish she showed her Welshness more in the book.

Well Written And Enjoyable To Read
2003-09-08 - I too am a classical singer, and I must admit that Church might not be as wonderful as the World has made her to be. I do also have to say that I very much enjoy listening to her music and I think she has a lot of potential. Those who give her such low reviews, in my opinion, are jealous and unfair to Church.

As for the book? I thought it was very well written and I thoroughly enjoyed every chapter! I'm 15 and it kept my attention through the whole book. I found her life to be not that of a rich and famous singer/star, but that of a regular teenage girl. Sure, she's got about a million times more than most regular people will ever have, but she lives in a semi-regual way compared to other stars. It tells a lot of interesting facts about how she got started, her family, her home and travels.

In all, I have to say that this was very entertaining. I would recomend this book to those of you who are not jealous of this teenage star and for those of you who like to read about famous people.