Imagine sneaking away to spend seven days with the most famous woman in the worlds biggest movie star. A beguiling memoir that reads like a fable, My Week with Marilyn is above all a love letter to one of our most enduring icons. England, 1956. Hollywood's biggest star- Marilyn Monroe- desperately needs time away from a difficult movie shoot opposite Laurence Olivier and the pressures of her new marriage to the playwright Arthur Miller. She turns her attention to Colin Clark, a young and handsome assistant on the set. Together they escape, beginning a remarkable true adventure: an innocent week in the English countryside in which Clark becomes Marilyn's confidant and ally... and maybe falls a little bit in love. Never before published together in a single volume, here are both the fly-on-the-wall diary Clark kept during the often tumultuous filming of the legendary film The Prince and the Showgirl and his heartfelt and intimate remembrance of the brief episode that was to change his life