Elegantly written and painfully funny: the second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed stand-up comedian, novelist and actor
In 1971 Alexei Sayle, raised by communist parents in 1950s Liverpool set out to find his fortune in London. It was a city where punk was in its infancy, unemployment was high, the weekly branch meetings of the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) group took place in the Bellman bookshop, a young Margaret Thatcher had just been made Secretary of State for Education and stand-up comedy was unheard of.
