Kid Gloves av Adam Mars-Jones

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<b>''Brims with humour ... each sentence is a delight'' <i>Independent</i></b><br><br><b>Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016<br></b><br>When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship.<br><br>In the aftermath of an unlooked-for intimacy, Mars-Jones has written a book devoted to particular emotions and events. <i>Kid Gloves</i> is a highly entertaining book about (among other things) families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity. It is necessarily also a book about the writer himself - and the implausible, long-delayed moment, some years before, when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation, taking the homophobic bull by the horns. The supporting cast includes