Portrait of an Idiot as a Young Man

When Jon Holmes became a father (twice), he was asked to fill in a form detailing his family medical history. Except he couldn''t, because he has no idea who his family are. Born to an unnamed, unmarried mother and an unknown father and given up for adoption at four weeks old, Jon decided to document his own history, so that one day he could pass it on to his children.

It''s a story of how ...