A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother\u2019s idiosyncratic sex life, and his father\u2019s dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny. On the surface, David Baddiel\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
David\u2019s detailing of the affair \u2013 including a hilarious focus on how his mother turned their household over to golf memorabilia, and an eye-popping cache of her erotic writings \u2013 leads to the inescapable conclusion that Sarah Baddiel was a cross between Jack Niklaus and Erica Jong. Meanwhile, as Baddiel investigates his family\u2019s past, his father\u2019s memories are fading; dementia is making him moodier and more disinhibited, with an even greater penchant for obscenity. As with his mother\u2019s 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>\n
My Family: The Memoir<\/strong> is David Baddiel\u2019s candid examination of his childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Family: The Memoir<\/strong> is David Baddiel\u2019s candid examination of his childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":69892,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[401],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66795","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-biography","8":"first","9":"onbackorder","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n