Autobiography. While I was listening, I noted "Seems to me to be written by someone who’s not very experienced and has tried to use long words instead of short ones - their Christmas dinner is described as our 'festive fayre' - and, 'living hand to mouth was the only system our budget would withstand'"

Maybe it was a bit overwritten? And maybe written with someone else’s help. In one case he talks about a holiday as being an "Enid Blyton idyll. And he hesitates before the word “idyll” before mispronouncing it (“id-‘eel”). If he’d written that himself it seems odd that he’d trip up over it. He also pronounced chutzpah like it’s spelled .

It's a reasonably interesting story - at least, I fancy finding out what happened next; but it wasn't gripping. Also I'd sort of assumed it was his whole life, not just from age 8-18 or so. I probably would read the next one if it was available free from the library but no rush.

I think it might have been better if he'd had a professional reader do it. The way he read it made it sound a bit plodding, and his mispronunciations were distracting.

Completed : 24-May-2019 (audiobook)