I bought a copy of this with my own money - cash - I put the crispy tenner into Rays hand and told him that it allowed me to write an unbiased review.'Warts and all.' He said... He even wrote that on the title page.
I have always been drawn to the 'Picaresque' over the picturesque; and Ray does picaresque well!
An unadorned tale of a scallywags journey through life (or lets hope, part way through life) from his Swansea roots via trouble, boozers, alternative journalism, pantomime, girls and scrapes to Notting Hill today.
As a local resident this book was essential reading, not a great work of literature (nor ever pretending to be) but a damn sight better written than a lot of so called literature. Ray is a natural storyteller and his voice resonates throughout.
I wasn't here in the Eighties... Ray has filled in a lot of the gaps!
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