“Watch Me” is Huston’s second memoir, delving into her life as an actress and consort to Jack Nicholson. Why one needs to two-part their life is something I don’t necessarily understand, as reading this book with the expectation that it’s the first and only of its type leaves you feeling that you have interrupted a story part way through.

However if you have read her first memoir, or at least understand that this is part two – you can settle in for an interesting name dropping of the a-list stars of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.

A significant focus of the memoir is her love affair with Nicholson. As you would expect, it doesn’t paint a particularly likable description of the love rat. When reading Huston’s accounts of her time with Jack, all I could picture was Nicholson at the 2014 Oscars, leering all over Jennifer Lawrence!

Huston, however, shows a remarkable amount of grace (or perhaps ambivalence) towards her years with Jack, and there seems to be an unspoken complicity in following along with such indomitable behaviour for a relatively extended period of time.

Nicholson is not the only person who comes off as being a bit of a brute, as Huston also provides an insight into her time with Ryan O’Neal. The allegations of abuse will not surprise many, as these types of incidents have been well documented in the past with allegations of a tumultuous relationship with Farrah Fawcett. Huston recalls these periods of her life with a sensitivity and rawness that makes you feel sorry for the pain she had to manage.

Throughout the memoir, Huston comes off as being slightly removed from the telling of her life, and sometimes there can be a lack of emotion behind the words written. Many pages can run long with recollections of events that read more like a guest list rather than a significant retelling of an important event in her life.

I personally would have preferred more of an insight into her acting career, as these chapters where she detailed her work on film and tv were her best. Depending on your familiarity with Huston’s work, some chapters will stand out to you more than others, but being a child of the 90’s, The Witches and The Addams Family (of which I used to watch every night in order to fall asleep for many years) were the ones that held the most significance to me.

The memoir deals with love and loss elegantly, and Huston shares her innermost yearnings for family and children with her readers. It is through these passages that her sensitivity and personality comes across strongly. Huston comes off as an endearing person with significant strength and intelligence. It might not be the juiciest of memoirs but I have no doubt that the story is told earnestly.