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Just Ignore Him

Alan Davies

4.36/5 (3796 ratings)

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The story of a life built on sand. In the rain.

In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsight, always with a keen sense of the absurd.

From sibling dynamics, to his voiceless, misunderstood progression through school, sexuality and humiliating 'accidents', Davies inhabits his younger mind with spectacular accuracy, sharply evoking an era when Green Shield Stamps, Bob-a-Job week and Whizzer & Chips loomed large, a bus fare was 2p - and children had little power in the face of adult motivation. Here, there are often exquisitely tender recollections of the mother he lost at six years old, of a bereaved family struggling to find its way, and the kicks and confusion of adolescence.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 274 pages

Publication:: 2020

Publisher:: Little, Brown

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1408713314

ISBN13:: 9781408713310

kindle Asin:: B08P1KPXGM

Just Ignore Him

Alan Davies

4.36/5 (3796 ratings)

Read Download

The story of a life built on sand. In the rain.

In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsight, always with a keen sense of the absurd.

From sibling dynamics, to his voiceless, misunderstood progression through school, sexuality and humiliating 'accidents', Davies inhabits his younger mind with spectacular accuracy, sharply evoking an era when Green Shield Stamps, Bob-a-Job week and Whizzer & Chips loomed large, a bus fare was 2p - and children had little power in the face of adult motivation. Here, there are often exquisitely tender recollections of the mother he lost at six years old, of a bereaved family struggling to find its way, and the kicks and confusion of adolescence.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 274 pages

Publication:: 2020

Publisher:: Little, Brown

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1408713314

ISBN13:: 9781408713310

kindle Asin:: B08P1KPXGM

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