{"product_id":"9780008487607","title":"My Family : The Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Baddiel, David \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 06\/06\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008487607,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idiosyncratic sex life, and his father’s dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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. David’s detailing of the affair – including a hilarious focus on how his mother turned their household over to golf memorabilia, and an eye-popping cache of her erotic writings – leads to the inescapable conclusion that Sarah Baddiel was a cross between Jack Niklaus and Erica Jong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My Family: The Memoir is David Baddiel’s candid examination of his childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his parents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43056199401516,"sku":"9780008487607","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008487607_685c4425-e98b-4955-a111-286bae3f5cb8.jpg?v=1721049047","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9780008487607","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}