Mother's Boy

''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 Je...