Should you read this book?

Another yes to this one. Period detail and attitudes. The casual humour of the trenches. How the old boys network and the class system work.

This one's a yes unless you're one of his children in which case you'll probably need counselling. The Financial Times says " Webb has written an engaging memoir that is a well-crafted rebuke to the orthodoxies of gender determinism." and I guess that's pretty much it. I enjoyed listening to it, even if it's mainly about his childhood which is normally the bit I skip in celeb autobiographies. He remembers his sixth form romances and fumbles and recounts them in excrutiating detail. I mean - who cares about that stuff? At the same time the impact of the death of his mother is the real heart break. His mini essays on gender are really good apart from the soppy ones at the end