Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2024.
Collation:
352 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Illustrations on lining papers.
Summary:
On the surface, David Baddiel's childhood was fairly standard: a lower-middle-class Jewish family living in an ordinary house in Dollis Hill, north-west London. But David came to realise that his mother was in fact not ordinary at all. Having escaped extermination by fleeing Nazi Germany as a child, she was desperate to make her life count, which took the form of a passionate, decades-long affair with a golfing memorabilia salesman. Meanwhile, as Baddiel investigates his family's past, his father's memories are fading; dementia is making him moodier and more disinhibited, with an even greater penchant for obscenity. As with his mother's affair, there is both comedy and poignancy to be found: laughter is a constant presence, capable of transforming the darkest of experiences into something redemptive.
ISBN:
9780008487607 (hbk)
Dewey Class:
792.7028092
920.BADD
B/BAD
B.BAD
920/BAD
920 BAD
B-BAD
B BAD
792.702809
792.7028
Local Class:
B BAD
792.7092
B/BAD
Bookmark Link:
https://aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/KIDS/BIBENQ?BRN=3924062
