My Family: The Memoir

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'Genuinely one of the funniest books I have ever read. I wept with laughter' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Baddiel has made true art out of experience ... A masterpiece' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Laugh out loud funny ... The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is WAY WAY WAY TOO MUCH in all the best ways. I lost count of how many times I gasped' CAITLIN MORAN 'As funny and moving as you'd imagine – actually, more so' ADAM KAY 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...