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Just Ignore Him

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A new memoir from the brilliant comedian, actor and broadcaster Alan Davies, star of QI and JONATHAN CREEK. 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 & 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. Through even the joyous and innocent memories, the pain of Davies's lifelong grief and profound betrayal is unfiltered, searing and beautifully articulated. JUST IGNORE HIM is not only an autobiography, it is a testament to a survivor's resilience and courage.… (meer)
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Just Ignore Him door Alan Davies

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Wow. Just wow.

Like everyone else, I know Alan Davies as a comedian and actor, the perennial naughty boy in class on QI making Sandi or Stephen laugh. So reading this book was a bit of a shock.

Right up front I'll tell you the book is largely concerned with three things: the lasting grief of his mother's death when Alan was only 6; the physical, sexual and emotional abuse he experienced at his father's hands; and how those things had an impact on his whole life.

I was so very impressed with how frank and open Alan was in this book, how grief-stricken and raw he still is how willing to examine misogyny and homophobia in his early life. He looks back at these events from childhood as a grown man with children, with compassion for his younger self, with a sharp, clear eye. ( )
  xaverie | Apr 3, 2023 |
A beautifully written memoir of a terrible childhood. Hard going, it reveals how much can be hidden behind the closed doors of suburbia and the dreadful toll taken by suppressing truth. Unputdownable. ( )
  Figgles | Mar 7, 2021 |
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While the comedian's first memoir was a larky look at his teens, this second one bravely tackles the parts its predecessor missed out. An intimate, open-hearted book, Just Ignore Him tells of the "quiet, librarial molestation" Davies endured by his father from the age of eight to 13, and the bullying and gaslighting that ensured his silence. Davies was 51 when he finally went to the police, by which time his father's ill health meant he would never stand trial.
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A new memoir from the brilliant comedian, actor and broadcaster Alan Davies, star of QI and JONATHAN CREEK. 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 & 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. Through even the joyous and innocent memories, the pain of Davies's lifelong grief and profound betrayal is unfiltered, searing and beautifully articulated. JUST IGNORE HIM is not only an autobiography, it is a testament to a survivor's resilience and courage.

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