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CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
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CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE

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With a new introduction by Valerie Grove

‘A true masterpiece of the genre’ The Times

Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer’s acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents

an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks on the career that was to inspire his hilarious and immortal literary creations.

Told with great humour and touching honesty, this is a magnificent achievement by one of Britain’s best-loved writers.

‘Enchantingly witty … should be held as the model for all autobiographies of our times’
Auberon Waugh

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
4 November 2010
Pages
256
ISBN
9780141193847

With a new introduction by Valerie Grove

‘A true masterpiece of the genre’ The Times

Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer’s acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents

an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks on the career that was to inspire his hilarious and immortal literary creations.

Told with great humour and touching honesty, this is a magnificent achievement by one of Britain’s best-loved writers.

‘Enchantingly witty … should be held as the model for all autobiographies of our times’
Auberon Waugh

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
4 November 2010
Pages
256
ISBN
9780141193847