- Published: 06/10/2022
- ISBN: 9781783787654
- Granta Books
- 240 pages
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Blake Morrison
First published in 1993, Blake Morrison’s And When Did You Last See Your Father? is an extraordinary portrait of family life, father-son relationships and bereavement. It became a best-seller and inspired a whole genre of confessional memoirs, winning the Waterstone’s/Volvo/Esquire Award for Non-Fiction and the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
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A painful, funny, frightening, moving, marvellous book ... everybody should read it
Nick Hornby
Tender, honest, angry, loyal, this extraordinary book balances the life, illness and death of a forceful father with the feelings of his independent son
The Times
This luminous tribute to a beloved dad made me laugh until I cried and cry till my nostrils were raw. A masterpiece - one of those books that you treasure forever
Val Hennessy
From the Same Author
As If
Blake Morrison
In 1993 toddler James Bulger was beaten to death by two ten-year-old-boys. In the wake of this brutal crime, came one of the most public and shocking trials in living memory.
Written in Morrison’s supple, beautiful prose As If is a passionate, first-hand testimony of the Bulger case. It is a book about the nature of children, the meaning of childhood innocence and the state of the world we live in today.
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Blake Morrison on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | Granta 143
Court
Blake Morrison
‘One by one they’re led into the box. They swear their oath. They confirm their name, their employment, why they were where they say they were, what it was they saw.’
Essays & Memoir
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Granta 143
God and Me
Blake Morrison
‘My hopes weren’t high, even to begin with, so I felt no bitterness when He didn’t reveal Himself’
Essays & Memoir
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Granta 143
When I Last Saw Him
Blake Morrison
‘When young, we were impatient with our parents: now we want to atone for our callowness, to take measure of them, to understand which parts of them live on in us.’
