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Gloucester Crescent
- Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups
- Narrated by: Robbie Scotcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill, filled with the sound of clacking typewriters and children playing. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady in the van outside one house and the familiar-looking residents crossing the road....
Written through the eyes of a growing child, this is the story of a very particular family and their circle of brilliant, idealistic and intellectual friends in London in the '60s, '70s and '80s. We follow William through the ups and downs of childhood, as he explores the back gardens and homes of his famous neighbours, attends dramatic rehearsals with his dad, Jonathan Miller, fails exams and is bullied at school, gets drugs from the philosopher A. J. Ayer's wife, and tries to watch the moon landing with Alan Bennett and a room full of writers.
Hilarious and at times heartbreaking, this is also about how we grow up and move on - and what happens when we come back. Not only a picture of an extraordinary time in Britain's cultural history - and a hitherto unseen portrait of some of the brightest minds of a generation - this book tells the funny, tender and moving story of a young boy trying to find his own identity.
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- lisapisa
- 18-02-2020
really great story, but kept repeating DAD was Bad
Dad was treated like that by his Dad, so he treated you, like how his dad treated him, so not dad's fault. He had no other teaching/example of how to be a Dad
really great story, but repetitive, kept repeating a lot of the same stuff again, to the point that I thought, I must've gone back 3 chapters by accident on audiobook but nup, we get the same thing again. I realise William kept wanting to do everything to please his Dad, even thought his mum told him when he was 16 yrs, whatever you will do, nothing will ever please him. so live your life, do what you want, stop seeking his approval.
but William kept on trying to get his dad's approval, Im 5 yrs younger than the author and came from a similar family, and I had the same issues, but I got over it 25yrs ago,, with the help of booze sex and a psychologist, and understood, it was my dad's problem, not mine. and Ive thrived since, and now have none of the other stuff,
, so for William to be so scared that he released the book after his father died, is sad, when HE KNOWS HIS DAD WOULDVE NEVER READ IT ANYWAY.
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