My Family

<p>'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN</p> <p>'A masterpiece' SATHNAM SANGHERA</p> <p>'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES</p> <p>'Brilliant ... funny and moving' ADAM KAY</p> <br> <br> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>My Family: The Memoir is David Baddiel's candid examination of his childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his parents.</p> <p>'An extraordinary, hilarious book' OBSERVER</p> <p>'I lost count of how many times I gasped' CAITLIN MORAN</p> <p>'Outrageously funny...profoundly thoughtful' THE SUNDAY TIMES</p> <p>'Explosively funny, brilliantly written' DAVID WALLIAMS</p> <p>'Infernally funny' HOWARD JACOBSON</p> <p>'A triumph' NINA STIBBE</p> <p>'Baddiel has done his parents proud' GUARDIAN</p> <p>'Had me howling' PANDORA SYKES</p>