num_pages: 274
description: The story of a life built on sand. In the rain.In this compelling memoir comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsight always with a keen sense of the absurd.From sibling dynamics to his voiceless misunderstood progression through school sexuality and humiliating 'accidents' Davies inhabits his younger mind with spectacular accuracy sharply evoking an era when Green Shield Stamps Bob-a-Job week and Whizzer &amp; Chips loomed large a bus fare was 2p - and children had little power in the face of adult motivation. Here there are often exquisitely tender recollections of the mother he lost at six years old of a bereaved family struggling to find its way and the kicks and confusion of adolescence.
language: English
title: Just Ignore Him
publisher: Little, Brown