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Almost every page contains an observation so baldly funny that you will wish to commit it to memory, usually followed by an event so starkly desolate that its memory will make you shudder.' Simon Garfield, Observer.
Brian Thompson never had to look very hard for trouble. His unorthodox childhood and his eccentric parents guaranteed that. But when, aged eighteen, Brian left home he was determined to enjoy a life of unstinting ordinariness, taking advantage of a Britain that would 'never have it so good'.
National Service led to foreign travel in Kenya, skirmishes with the Mau Mau and a request to fix the exam results of his platoon sergeant, one Idi Amin. Even when Brian was safe on English soil he was still confounded in his ambition to lead a quiet life. His limp attempt at University entrance - a single letter on some stolen NAAFI headed paper - led to admittance to Trinity College, Cambridge and the niceties of middle class student life. And then there was rock and roll. And girls.
Suitably confused, Brian did what was considered to be the right thing. He married the Clever Girl.
Brian Thompson never had to look very hard for trouble. His unorthodox childhood and his eccentric parents guaranteed that. But when, aged eighteen, Brian left home he was determined to enjoy a life of unstinting ordinariness, taking advantage of a Britain that would 'never have it so good'.
National Service led to foreign travel in Kenya, skirmishes with the Mau Mau and a request to fix the exam results of his platoon sergeant, one Idi Amin. Even when Brian was safe on English soil he was still confounded in his ambition to lead a quiet life. His limp attempt at University entrance - a single letter on some stolen NAAFI headed paper - led to admittance to Trinity College, Cambridge and the niceties of middle class student life. And then there was rock and roll. And girls.
Suitably confused, Brian did what was considered to be the right thing. He married the Clever Girl.