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The long-awaited autobiography from the man who's been at the heart of the entertainment establishment for 50 years 'I am what my childhood made me.' But what is that exactly, Gyles? Who are you? And why? In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and coming of age in an apparently well-to-do but always strapped-for-cash middle-class English family. It is a story about the ordinary things - family life, happiness, ambition, and love, but it is also about adventures - meeting princes and presidents, visiting Death Row in America, exploring the sex clubs of Copenhagen. It is a story of a boy blessed with wit and what he got up to and the people he met growing up in the most wonderful city in all the world in those extraordinary years after the Second World War. For Odd Boy Out is about more than Gyles and his exploits- it is also a kaleidoscopic portrait of Britain from the 1950s onwards, featuring a cast drawn from politics, the media, swinging London, stage and screen, from Laurence Olivier to Twiggy. By turns hilarious and moving, and chock full of unforgettable stories, Odd Boy Out is the unexpected and candid autobiography of one of the country's most unlikely personalities. Yet at root it is a powerful and passionate exploration of childhood - how our heritage, our parents and our upbringing make us who we are.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780241483718
eBay Product ID (ePID)7049040735
Product Key Features
Book TitleOdd Boy Out: the 'hilarious, Eye-Popping, Unforgettable' Sunday Times Bestseller
AuthorGyles Brandreth
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMemorials, Television
Publication Year2021
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height240mm
Item Width162mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorGyles Brandreth
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom