Semi-Detached
Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd
Published: October 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780718146269
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Television
Description: "Griff Rhys Jones takes a trip through his golden age - back to a childhood in the sixties and seventies - by car, by bus, by bicycle, but mostly on foot. Semi-detached Griff relives freezing bus journeys to school and the spontaneous theft of that half-a-crown from Charlie Hume's money box; sitting outside Butlins at Clacton (longing to be inside and on the Waltzer instead of stranded on the pebbles with his dad); hazy summer afternoons spent with feral gangs in the woods, or storming the mudflats while singing extracts from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band." "From birth to the BBC, this is a story of a confident middle child. Griff's devoted parents, Gwenneth and Elwyn gave him love, security and plenty of asparagus soup from a fake-wicker vacuum flask with a plastic top. Griff left the bosom of his family for the firm embrace of real life; via the Upminster Fun Gang, the Direct Grant System and Party Sevens, losing his virginity on a twenty-nine-foot yacht, discovering the romantic advantages of shared babysitting engagements and the drawbacks of infatuation with identical twins." "If he hadn't moved around so much as a child, would Griff have felt less like a voyeur, looking in on the lighted window across the square, the Georgian house glowing in the sun, overhearing the clink of glasses and the bray of public-school certainties? Would he be able to tuck in his own shirt? Would he be fully detached?"--BOOK JACKET.