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Exquisitely written and wonderfully readable - There are tears, laughter and filial tenderness on every page of Tim Jeal's perfect gem of a book. Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

An exquisite and moving portrait of a deeply eccentric father. Tim Jeal's beautifully nuanced memoir is by turns lyrical, poignant and gloriously funny.

Jeal's prose is so sprightly, his interweaving of time-schemes so skilful, and his "ordinary" story so touching that his book feels completely fresh - At its heart is an unusually engrossing account of parental oddity, marital resilience and filial complexity. Andrew Motion, Guardian

This is a marvellous book: funny, vivid, immensely touching and beautifully constructed. John Preston, Evening Standard

A pleasure to read: unpretentious, moving, full of jokes but also unobtrusively wise. Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph