Title: Animal magic
Description: Animal Magic documents a heady and peripatetic childhood in Lancashire, the Lake District and Wiltshire, misadventures at home and school, and the early working life of the two brothers, on the lower rungs of show business, backstage at Claridge's, and finally in advertising. This spellbinding elegy negotiates love affairs, family tensions, exhibitions, publishers' rejections and precarious living in a flat in Tite Street, Chelsea. Punctuated with excerpts from The Queue and Jonathan's other bizarre and brilliant writings, Animal Magic is a book bursting with humour, wit and pathos.
Subjects: Social life and customs, English Authors, Biography, Nineteen sixties, Family
Places: Great Britain
People: Jonathan Barrow (1947-), Andrew Barrow
Time periods: 20th century