{"product_id":"9780008487645","title":"My Family : The Memoir","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Baddiel, David\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 22 May 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 198 x 31 | 322g\u003cp\u003e'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A masterpiece’ SATHNAM SANGHERA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'The read of the summer'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e THE SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Brilliant … funny and moving' ADAM KAY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\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\u003cp\u003e 'An extraordinary, hilarious book'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e OBSERVER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘I lost count of how many times I gasped’ CAITLIN MORAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Outrageously funny…profoundly thoughtful' THE SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Explosively funny, brilliantly written' DAVID WALLIAMS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Infernally funny' HOWARD JACOBSON\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A triumph’ NINA STIBBE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Baddiel has done his parents proud’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Had me howling' PANDORA SYKES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baddiel, David","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53524620116152,"sku":"9780008487645","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780008487645.jpg?v=1780059432","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780008487645","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}