Book Review

There’s been an outpouring of affection following Paul O’Grady’s death. He was of course best known for his “blonde bombsite” Lily Savage character, his numerous TV shows and for his championing of dogs, especially rescue dogs. But Paul also wrote books.

Most of them have been autobiographical – there’s four in that series, and a great place to start is at the beginning – taking us up to age 18, and titled At My Mother’s Kneeand other low joints.

Paul wrote as he talked, very funny, warm, dry and very human. The characters in his life are people you feel you know – his ear for the way people talk is magic. He said that a lot of Lily was based on the women he encountered, particularly in his childhood and you can see that from his tales about his Aunty Chrissie, aka The Pride of Birkenhead Buses (she was a bus conductress) and from his descriptions of the slanging matches in the local shop.

We get to see Paul as altar boy, boxer, barman, civil servant and club goer on the Liverpool scene. Its brilliant stuff and some parts are so funny you might well end up crying with laughter.

A great way to remember a lovely bloke.

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