Mother's BoyHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer. 'One of the all time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph 'Wonderful candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd 'Laugh out loud glorious and uproarious' Simon Schama Howard Jacobson was forty when his first novel was published. In Mother's Boy, he traces the life that brought him there. Born into a working class Jewish family in 1940s Manchester, he did not lack