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Item Category 1: Adult non-fiction
Record 20 of 11117

Main Title:
My family : the memoir / David Baddiel.
Author:
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2025.
Collation:
352 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.
Summary:
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. 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.
ISBN:
9780008487645 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
792.7028092
792.702809 BAD
792.702809
B BAD
792.702
Language:
English
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BRN:
3993002
Bookmark Link:
https://rochdale.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/MASK/BIBENQ?BRN=3993002

Holdings:
1 Reserve

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Castleton Library
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792.702809 BAD
Adult non-fiction
  • In-transit from Central Services — not open to the public to Castleton Library (Set: 10 Jul 2025)