Product Description

Winning X Factor was amazing. I didn t even think I d get through the first audition, so I just couldn t believe it when I kept getting further and further. I really didn t expect to win.

I just feel so incredibly lucky. Sometimes I still can t believe it s all happening to me.

Leona s life is a real-life fairytale. Three years ago she was an ordinary girl with an incredible voice, working as a daydreaming waitress and wondering if she would ever have a chance to sing.

She then made the life-changing decision to audition for The X Factor and the show completely transformed her life.

Leona has since become one of the biggest stars in the world, with record-breaking hits, countless awards under her belt and adored by her millions of fans.

Now, she will tell her story for the first time and share what it s really like to go from a normal girl to a global superstar. From growing up in Hackney, discovering her remarkable talent, the gruelling X Factor auditions, working with Simon Cowell and coping with international success; Leona is a home-grown sensation and has an amazing story to share.

Packed with exclusive behind-the-scenes photographs of the stunning star, this book gives you a personal insight into life behind the headlines and reveals exactly what it feels like when all your dreams come true.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #395 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Review
'The first-class photography helps deliver a delightfully intimate insight to Leona's life off stage' (Sunday Express )

'This pictorial autobiography gives Leona fans a peek into the life of The X Factor's biggest success story and show that, while she might be a proper international pop diva, she's still the sweet, down-to-earth girl we all fell in love with... Laden with beautiful, glossy pictures' (HEAT )

'Pop sensation Leona lets readers into her life... full of stunning pictures' (OK! Hot Stars )

'A beautifully presented package full of glossy pics' (News of the World )

'A revealing insight into what it really feels like to have all your dreams come true' (LOOK )

About the Author
Leona Lewis lives in Hackney with her boyfriend Lou Al-Chamaa, who she has known since she was ten years old.

Customer Reviews

Good Read!
I'm a Leona fan, and I'm still reading this book at the minute. It's great to read more about the finer details of her journey, the bits we don't know about. As for all the pictures, well I don't agree with the other reviews, I think it adds to the book, to be able to see all that she's doing is kinda fun! Can't wait now for her album to come out now!

too many pictures
I bought this because I am a big leona fan, but I was suprised with the amount of pictures. The second half of the book is just pictures, and it would have been better to have more writing,or just a smaller book. It was interesting however to find out more about her and her life.

Really Leona? Well if so...
Bear in mind, when reading my review, I am not the typical Leona fan - if there is a 'typical' Leona fan. My teenage daughter would be more inclined towards Leona but I really admired her attitudes and morals both on the X Factor and off, but also think she has a fantastic vocal capability.

Being a sentimental person, I do fall head-over-heels for the 'rags to riches' storylines that dominate X Factor and many other outlets of the modern world. I was a little disappointed to discover therefore that Leona was hardly a novice, she'd won 10 000 pounds in a contest and was offered in conjunction with this a non-existent record deal. I gained the impression that she was a little big-headed (something I would never have thought) in her ramblings as to 'When would I see the judges?' and 'Every audition was the producers'. This does not profess a humble person, there are many people who also claim to 'not know how good' they are and yet also are thrilled at every continuance and positive, whereas Leona appears to take it for granted.

For those die-hard fans who insist this is not Leona, as I have portrayed her, read on. If this book was ghost-written (I'm not the best for detecting these things) then the ghost-writer writes very badly, or has attempted to be so like Leona that he/she has completely destroyed any charm she has as a person.

The photographs were quite unnecessary, I felt. It's an 'autobigraphy' (or so we're told, she's squashed a small amount of her life into one rather large dull narrative) and I think should have had less pictures.

But I do still like Leona, her music's great and I'll be purchasing her new album but perhaps stick to the music, Leona.