# Mother's Boy

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- Book: [Mother's Boy](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-jacobson/mothers-boy) ([Mother's Boy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-jacobson/mothers-boy.md))
- Authors: [Howard Jacobson](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-jacobson)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-15-2911-567-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2023-03-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph 'Wonderful... candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd 'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon Schama Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer. Howard Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published. In Mother's Boy , he traces the life that brought him there. Born into a working-class Jewish family in 1940s Manchester, he did not lack encouragement or subject matter. Jacobson takes us from childhood and studying at Cambridge, through landing in Sydney as a maverick young professor, and on to his first marriage and the birth of his son. Later, he begins new - and often surprising - ventures in places as disparate as London, Wolverhampton, Boscastle and Melbourne. Infused with bittersweet memories of Jacobson's parents and friends, this is the story of a writer's beginnings, and of learning to understand who you are before you can become the writer you were meant to be. 'Hilariously brilliant' David Baddiel 'Howard Jacobson brilliantly transforms calamity into rip-roaring comedy' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday