Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir
Alan Cumming
DISCOVER THE NEW MEMOIR FROM ALAN CUMMING. BAGGAGE: TALES FROM A FULLY PACKED LIFE PUBLISHES 28 OCT '21
'One of the most memorable, heart-stopping autobiographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY
WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2015
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ATTITUDE MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
A beloved star of stage and screen, Alan Cumming's life and career have been shaped by a complex and dark family past - full of troubled memories, kept buried away. But then an unexpected phone call from his long-estranged father brought the pain of the past hurtling back into the present, and unravelled everything he thought he knew about himself. Not My Father's Son is the story of his journey of discovery, both a memoir of his childhood in Scotland, and an investigation into his family history which would change him forever.
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STEPHEN FRY Do you know the old line "I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me"? Alan Cumming's moving memoir Not My Father's Son is all that and more. This is a beautiful book-sad, funny, haunting, surprising, suspenseful, gut-wrenching, endearing. It will linger inside of you long after you turn the final page
HARLAN COBEN
author of New York Times bestsellers MISSING YOU and SIX YEARS
In beautiful, honest, arresting prose, he offers a tale you'll never forget. A real diamond of a book.
ANDREW O'HAGAN Incredibly affecting
DAMIAN BARR, Books of the Year
Herald
A poignant chronicle of damage sustained in youth and his recovery
MARIELLA FROSTRUP
Observer
Powerful . . . the result is both heart-breaking and brave . . . A thoroughly gripping read, one that keeps its biggest revelation until the very end
Sunday Times
Moving
Observer
You'll like him a lot . . . Compelling
Evening Standard
A clear-eyed, often moving account of both his terrifying childhood and his recent attempts to come to terms with his past [. . .] Not My Father's Son moves elegantly and with an occasional dash of humour between Cumming's childhood and the revelations of the more recent past [. . .] memorable
Chicago Tribune
One of the most fun people in show business
Time