Ted Kessler

A lovely little volume made up of short articles from all sorts of varied contributors on the relationship with their fathers. Some are warm and funny, some are sad, some flawed and some out and out failures. All now look back with the benefit of hindsight, often being parents themselves. We get an insight into famous men-Leonard Cohen, Ian Drury, Roy Castle and Johnny Ball for instance, and famous men & women recount how their fathers shaped them, almost always for the good ; Chris Martin, Rod Stewart, Florence Welch, Paul Weller, Julie Birchall. What is apparent is that everyone's experience, famous or not, is different; yet amongst them you will undoubtedly find a couple that ring so true with your personal experience-I certainly did and was close to tears on two or three occasions (my dad no longer being with us). Now perhaps one about mothers?… (meer)