My Family: The Memoir

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'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN'A masterpiece' SATHNAM SANGHERA'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant ... funny and moving' ADAM KAY
A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his motheraEURO (TM)s idiosyncratic sex life, and his fatheraEURO (TM)s dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny.

On the surface, David BaddielaEURO (TM)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. DavidaEURO (TM)s detailing of the affair aEURO" including a hilarious focus on how his mother turned their household over to golf memorabilia, and an eye-popping cache of her erotic writings aEURO" leads to the inescapable conclusion that Sarah Baddiel was a cross between Jack Niklaus and Erica Jong.

Meanwhile, as Baddiel investigates his familyaEURO (TM)s past, his fatheraEURO (TM)s memories are fading; dementia is making him moodier and more disinhibited, with an even greater penchant for obscenity. As with his motheraEURO (TM)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.

My Family: The Memoir is David BaddielaEURO (TM)s candid examination of his childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his parents.

'An extraordinary, hilarious book' OBSERVER

aEURO~I lost count of how many times I gaspedaEURO (TM) CAITLIN MORAN

'Outrageously funnyaEURO|profoundly thoughtful' THE SUNDAY TIMES

'Explosively funny, brilliantly written' DAVID WALLIAMS

'Infernally funny' HOWARD JACOBSON

aEURO~A triumphaEURO (TM) NINA STIBBE

'Baddiel has done his parents proudaEURO (TM) GUARDIAN

'Had me howling' PANDORA SYKES

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780008487614
Published: July 2024

Number of pages: 336
Width: 153 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: 36 mm

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers