If you pick this up thinking it’s going to be a celebrity tell-all, then I suggest you put it right back down, because it ain’t! The opening line should give you a hint: “If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.” I rest my case!
This is a woman’s journey to understand her father, and in so doing , hoping to understand herself a little more. This is not an easy journey. It is at times painful, shocking, and raw. However, it’s not all doom and gloom and there is an over-riding sense that she has made many close friends who love her dearly. Her mother is just a delight, with her dry Scottish sense of humour. Magda’s writing is eloquent and beautiful. This is a brave, wonderful book that I cannot recommend highly enough. I am now going to re-watch Kath & Kim and Babe with a very different mindset.