If you want the nuts and bolts of Hitchcock's personal life and what he had for breakfast...you have come to the wrong book. This is a fabulous book, however, for following his movie career from film to film and follwoing his growth as a filmaker. How he built his movie making family is the focus here more so than his home life...except to the extent that they intersected. Just how important his wife was in his work life is fascinating..she was involved in filmaking before he was. From stories about his loving to work with Peter Lorre except that Lorre's drug addiction got in the way to his notorious manipulation of his leading ladies to the evolution of each movie script before glittering to the screen. A delightful read for movie junkies.