Publisher: Telegram Books
June 2013Demy Hb £14.99
eISBN 9781846591518
Taller Today
It’s 1953. There’s a new Queen. The MCC has won back the Ashes. Another BOAC Comet has crashed. We are taller today, but what was it like then, when we were smaller? In Taller Today, Neil Ferguson pieces together fragments of his childhood in 1950′s London where his father – socialist toff, inventor, jailbird, raconteur and recipient of the Imperial Russian Order of St Catherine (3rd Class) – leaves him to run wild in Kensington Gardens, to be practically a ‘Lost Boy’; to discover the tragedy that led to his own begetting and then to cope with his unexplained abandonment.
A vivid portrait of London in the aftermath of war, Taller Today is a funny/sad evocative account of childhood, memory and the relationship between a father and his son.
‘A considerable feat of memory and observation, colourfully evoking post-war London’ Tim Lott