<div><p><b><i>NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT </i>AND <i>GUARDIAN </i>BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015</b></p><p>When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his
Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2015
- Category
- Fiction
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