At My Mother's Knee Review

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(More customer reviews)Im sat in Germany visiting family and I have just finished the book I feel abandoned as I have no more books at hand ha ha. Usually I get bored when reading some autobiographies regarding the persons family but the book was written with such precise recollection you were there with Paul and all his memories just flowed and I part of Paul journey. I felt honoured that he chose to share his life whether it made me laugh or tug at my heart.I found myself reading out chapters to my dad who went to Wigan casino...and with a gasp I read out the last page too......................NO !!!!!!! Paul you best be bloody writing your pure evil leaving us like that but very very clever ha ha x

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In his own uniquely acid tongue, Paul O'Grady traces the hilarious tales of life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that took him from a virtuous altar-boy ("my first drag") to Britain's best loved entertainer. It's a life that includes, varyingly, stints in an abbatoir, as a social worker, in a high-class Mayfair brothel, and traipsing down to London to chase his dreams. By 23, Paul O'Grady had been a father, husband, drag queen, gay lover, divorcee, and degenerate. He did it all with a smile on his face, making a mental note to register the whip-smart one-liners that would later inform his star-studded path from the fringes of comedy to the heart of the British establishment, first as his own brilliant comic creation Lily Savage, then, triumphantly, as himself. Paul's remarkable childhood and early life is littered with a dizzying cast-list of rogues, rascals, lovers, fighters, saints, and sinners. Oh, and one iconic bus conductress. Told with pathos, love, empathy, and naturally, biting humor, the story of Paul O'Grady is that of everyman, everywoman, and inevitably, every drag act ever. He has been rich and poor, posh and common, straight and gay. He has mixed with stars and whores and all that's in between, slyly spotting the similarity between them all. His amazing and riveting life story reminds us that there is, when all is said and done, a bit of savage in all of us.

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