''One of the funniest books I have ever read'' HADLEY FREEMAN-A masterpiece- SATHNAM SANGHERA''The read of the summer'' THE SUNDAY TIMES''Brilliant - funny and moving'' ADAM KAYA searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother-s idiosyncratic sex life, and his father-s dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny.On the surface, David Baddiel-s childhood was fairly standard: a lower-middle-class Jewish family living in an ordinary house in Dollis Hill, north-west London. But David came to realise that his mother was in fact not ordinary at all. Having escaped extermination by fleeing Nazi Germany as a child, she was desperate to make her life count, which took the form of a passionate, decades-long affair with a golfing memorabilia salesman. David-s detailing of the affair - including a hilarious focus on how his mother turned their household over to golf memorabilia, and an eye-popping cache of her erotic writings - leads to the inescapable co
