{"product_id":"david-baddiel-my-family-2024-paperback","title":"David Baddiel: My Family [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Genuinely one of the funniest books I have ever read. I wept with laughter' \u003c\/strong\u003eHADLEY FREEMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Laugh out loud funny ... The read of the summer' \u003c\/strong\u003eNICOLA JEAL, THE SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cstrong\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\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eOn 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\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, 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\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Family: The Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e is David Baddiel's candid examination of his childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his parents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baddiel, David","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48856887099731,"sku":"9780008487614","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/baddiel-david-david-baddiel-my-family-2024-paperback-9780008487614-60131191783763.jpg?v=1732163895","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/david-baddiel-my-family-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}