One of the alltime great memoirs Daily TelegraphWonderful...candid, shrewd and moving William BoydLaughoutloud glorious and uproarious Simon SchamaHoward Jacobsons funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.Howard Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published. In Mothers Boy, he traces the life that brought him there. Born into a workingclass Jewish family in 1940s Manchester, he did not lack encouragement or subject matter. Jacobson takes us from childhood and studying at Cambridge, through landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor, and on to his first marriage and the birth of his son. Later, he begins new and often surprising ventures in places as disparate as London, Wolverhampton, Boscastle and Melbourne.Infused with bittersweet memories of Jacobsons parents and friends, this is the story of a writers beginnings, and of learning to understand who you are before you can become the writer you were meant to be.Hilariously brilliant David BaddielHoward Jacobson brilliantly transforms calamity into riproaring comedy Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

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