{"product_id":"mothers-boy-a-writers-beginnings","title":"Mother's Boy","description":"\u003cb\u003e'One of the all-time great memoirs' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd\u003cbr\u003e 'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon Schama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Howard Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published. In \u003ci\u003eMother's Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Hilariously brilliant' David Baddiel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Howard Jacobson brilliantly transforms calamity into rip-roaring comedy' Craig Brown, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings","offer_id":46321887117509,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-5291-1567-3.jpg?v=1780874297","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/mothers-boy-a-writers-beginnings","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}