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Original Title:	At My Mother's Knee...: and other low joints
ISBN:	0593059255 (ISBN13: 9780593059258)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Paul O'Grady Autobiography #1

At My Mother's Knee...: and other low joints (Paul O'Grady Autobiography #1) Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages

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Title	:	At My Mother's Knee...: and other low joints (Paul O'Grady Autobiography #1)
Author	:	Paul O'Grady
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2008 by Transworld Publishers (first published January 22nd 2008)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Humor

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In his own uniquely acid tongue, Paul O'Grady traces the hilarious tales of life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that took him from a virtuous altar-boy ("my first drag") to Britain's best loved entertainer. It's a life that includes, varyingly, stints in an abbatoir, as a social worker, in a high-class Mayfair brothel, and traipsing down to London to chase his dreams. By 23, Paul O'Grady had been a father, husband, drag queen, gay lover, divorcee, and degenerate. He did it all with a smile on his face, making a mental note to register the whip-smart one-liners that would later inform his star-studded path from the fringes of comedy to the heart of the British establishment, first as his own brilliant comic creation Lily Savage, then, triumphantly, as himself. Paul's remarkable childhood and early life is littered with a dizzying cast-list of rogues, rascals, lovers, fighters, saints, and sinners. Oh, and one iconic bus conductress. Told with pathos, love, empathy, and naturally, biting humor, the story of Paul O'Grady is that of everyman, everywoman, and inevitably, every drag act ever. He has been rich and poor, posh and common, straight and gay. He has mixed with stars and whores and all that's in between, slyly spotting the similarity between them all. His amazing and riveting life story reminds us that there is, when all is said and done, a bit of savage in all of us.

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Laugh out loud, but such a sad ending. Tissues at the ready. Cant wait for the next instalment now.

I am partial to a biography now and then as a change to my psychological crime novels and this one ticked the box. I have always liked the friendly, quick witted, Paul O'Grady more as a personality if honest than the entertainer Lily Savage and when I saw this book on Amazon for a bargain 99p thought why not. What I received was an interesting and not surprising amusing tale of Paul's early life growing up in Birkenhead that was certainly light entertainment.What I didn't realise at the time was

I've always liked Paul O'Grady, he's very funny and also seems to be a genuinely nice guy. I enjoyed this first instalment of his life story, it's written in an almost conversational, rambling style with the author going off at lots of interesting tangents.

As a scouser myself, I really enjoyed this book being familiar with all the places he writes about is obviously helpful, but even so Paul paints the pictures with his words very well.This cover's his early years ending when his is in his 18th year, he does not hide or candy coats his experiences which I believe says a lot about his character, it could have been all to easy to show himself in a better light, but this shows him for the "scally" (scouse term for trouble maker) he really was.People

brilliant and a sad all at the same time.

Likeable and occasionally entertaining though Mr O'Grady might be - this book is certainly not 'hilarious' and ultimately just...pointless. (I only read it whilst a member of a reading group - the premise of the group being that members were encouraged to read books they might ordinarily never consider reading - thanks reading group!).

3.5 I enjoyed learning about Paul's past and life in Liverpool and the many characters in his family. Got this book at a charity shop second hand.