DAvid Baddiel.
DAVID BADDIEL: BIOGRAPHY OF HIS FAMILY
MY FAMILY (2024)
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David Baddiel’s account of his apparently normal family lays bare the unusual secret life of his mother. On the surface she was a normal middle class housewife living in the north London suburb of Dollis Hill. But it emerged that she had for decades condusted an intense secret love affair with a salesman of golfing memorabilia. As a result of this the Baddiel family home gradually became full of golf-related items.
Hadley Freeman described the book as: ‘One of the funniest books I have ever read’. Sathnam Sanghera described it as ‘a masterpiece’. The Sunday Times review described it as ‘The read of the summer’.
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David Baddiel (Born 1964) is a British author, screenwriter and comedian. He was born in New York, moving to London with his parents when he was only four months old. Both his parents were Jewish. His father came from a working class background in Swansea, Wales. He worked as a research chemist at Unilever, and after being made redundant sold Dinky Toys at Grays Antique Market. His mother was bornin Nazi Germany, fleeing with her family fron Nazi Germany in 1939, when she was only five months old. David Baddiel read English at King’s College Cambridgce where he obtained a double first degree in English and performed with the Footlights comedy sketch troupe.
