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Justin Webbs childhood was far from ordinary
Between his mothers undiagnosed psychological problems and his stepfathers untreated ones life at home was dysfunctional at best But with gunwielding school masters and substandard living conditions Quaker boarding school wasnt much better
And the backdrop to this coming of age story Britain in the 1970s Led Zeppelin Janis Joplin and Free Strikes inflation and IRA bombings A time in which attitudes towards mental illness parenting and masculinity were worlds apart from the attitudes we have today A society that believed itself to be close to the edge of breakdown
Candid unsparing and darkly funny Justin Webbs memoir is a portrait of personal and national dysfunction So was it the brutal experiences of his upbringing or an innate ambition and drive that somehow survived them that shaped the urbane and successful radio presenter we know and love now
Brilliantly illuminates the horrors and absurd snobberies of those times A very fine memoir Jonathan Dimbleby
Moving and frank A story of a childhood defined by loneliness the absence of a father and the grim experience of a Quaker boarding school It is also one of the most perceptive accounts of Britain in the 1970s Misha Glenny
Justin Webb 2022 P Penguin Audio 2022
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