Just Ignore Him av Alan Davies

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<P><B>''A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies''s story-telling take the breath away'' Stephen Fry</B><br><br><B>''This hugely affecting book is brave, insightful and, at times, funny about things it is hard to be funny about'' Jo Brand</B><br><br>The story of a life built on sand. In the rain.<br><br>In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsight, always with a keen sense of the absurd.<br><br>From sibling dynamics, to his voiceless, misunderstood progression through school, sexuality and humiliating ''accidents'', Davies inhabits his younger mind with spectacular accuracy, sharply evoking an era when Green Shield Stamps, Bob-a-Job week and <I>Whizzer & Chips</I> loomed large, a bus fare was 2p - and chi