Alan Davies has written a brave, unflinching memoir of his childhood. His honesty is staggering at times; it is vitally important for him to identify the causes and effects of everything that happened in his life from the age of six when he lost his mother and he is doing this from his perspective as a man with a wife and children of his own now.
It is too sad to think of how Alan’s life would have turned out had his mother lived. He accepts that his childhood memories will never leave him and I am sure he has written the memoir in the hope of helping other survivors to see a way through to a good life. His own brilliantly successful professional life is testament to his remarkable strength of character and he appears to have a warm and loving personal life as well.
I read this book in one day. Alan was baring his soul in remembering his past in as much detail as was possible for him and I needed to know that he is going to be able to keep going and find happiness in the love he gives and receives, and deserves. I got to the end and it looks like he is doing just that.
Just Ignore Him is a story which had to be told and must be read.
5 out of 5.
Published by Little, Brown.
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