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My Family - The Memoir (Paperback)
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My Family - The Memoir (Paperback)
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List price R341
Loot Price R312
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You Save R29 (9%)
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A 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.
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.
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.
My Family: The Memoir is David Baddiel’s candid examination of his
childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his
parents.
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