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Paperback. Good. Remainder. Marks on cover and general wear to edges.
256 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2002
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Tony Booth
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February 18, 2025
I really enjoyed this book. It's a handsome volume for starters and a clever title.
I thought the 'facts' (as told) would be reasonably interesting, and they were, but the writing was less dry than such political memoirs can often be and less tediously gushing than 'celebrity' memoirs tend to be. Perhaps that is down to the co-writing with Booth's last wife, as well as the interweaving with a very different life, perhaps two more very different lives, in acting and his personal life. It is certainly the story of someone who had been, on multiple occasions, and on his own admission a prize plonker. We are shown the strain that distance and lack of money can exert... but he never explains why he had to end up with quite so many children.
The book was published in 2002 when, unforeshadowed here, he and his family had many more challenges to come. Without remembering this as I read, I found the book, its humility, its political perspective (even though I don't share his fondness for his son-in-law) and those personal struggles addressed surprisingly moving.
I thought the 'facts' (as told) would be reasonably interesting, and they were, but the writing was less dry than such political memoirs can often be and less tediously gushing than 'celebrity' memoirs tend to be. Perhaps that is down to the co-writing with Booth's last wife, as well as the interweaving with a very different life, perhaps two more very different lives, in acting and his personal life. It is certainly the story of someone who had been, on multiple occasions, and on his own admission a prize plonker. We are shown the strain that distance and lack of money can exert... but he never explains why he had to end up with quite so many children.
The book was published in 2002 when, unforeshadowed here, he and his family had many more challenges to come. Without remembering this as I read, I found the book, its humility, its political perspective (even though I don't share his fondness for his son-in-law) and those personal struggles addressed surprisingly moving.
December 18, 2021
Brilliant
February 3, 2011
The life story of Tony Blair's father-in-law. Surprisingly well written.
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