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Only after his father’s death does Andrew learn his effing and blinding father had a secret, forcing him to re-evaluate their relationship. His mother, meanwhile, was haunted by her own father's last words to her shortly before he was killed; “I hope I never see you again.” Ford and Sylvia are misfiring parents, weighed down with emotional baggage.
Andrew tries to make sense of a strange childhood which made him a dysfunctional adult;‘Mum and Dad; a remembrance and a revenge’ celebrates parents who were muddling through and berates a couple so wrapped up in their own ‘stuff’ that they can’t see the impact it is having on their son.
This chaotic upbringing happens against a backdrop of social change through the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. There is a rolling cast of rude mechanicals; free 99s are used to mask an affair with the ice cream man, Baroness Rosina von Kuhne runs a nursery with guns on the walls, there’s Stan the Flasher and Jane Fonda providing sex education.
The story explores the tragedies, feuds, ambitions and disappointments of a family. The author reaches back to trace the events which shape us before we even take the stage and explores what happens when a revelation changes everything you thought you knew.
Andrew Vincent has set fire to every house he has ever lived in and been disciplined in every job he has ever had. A former BBC journalist and university lecturer in broadcasting, he is currently unemployable.
In 1997 he was found guilty of "offending the peace and dignity of the state of Wyoming", having only been in the state 10 minutes. An only child of an only child of an only child and with no children of his own, Andrew is (somehow) the progeny of generations of low motility. When not writing he plays the guitar (badly), makes masks (grotesquely), runs (slowly), reads Biggles books (avidly) and gazes out of the window (vacantly).
He owns 28 hats, Married with three cats (Biggles, Boots and Monty), he lives on the Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border.
Andrew currently has three points on his driving license and is banned from his local Morrisons.
