Written with self-excoriating candour & the driest humour comes a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists " For me the hardest task of fatherhood was always the oppressive obligation to lead by example My sons have been present on countless occasions when I have as we say in my homeland completely lost my shit During these stressful moments I have often wished to turn to them as a judge might to a jury & say " Please strike the next few minutes from the record" but many of those instances are chronicled in these pages It's not because I'm any less ashamed now; it's because if I left them out there wouldn't be enough for a book Perhaps this is my life's true purpose maybe I'm here to teach my sons that self-esteem comes & goes
- it can get rolled right out of you at short notice
- but that you still can get by in life without any as long as you don't want to be a contestant on The Apprentice That at least is my experience & for what it's worth my example"