A review by ljm57
Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies

3.0

3.5*The title of this memoir gives some hint of Alan Davies’ upbringing in a tragically dysfunctional family. After the death of his loving and protective mother at the age of six, an event which was handled appallingly by his father and grandparents, Alan spends the rest of his young life feeling unloved by, and isolated from, his siblings and his peers, a situation engineered by his despotic and abusive father. Such a sad story of a confused little boy, growing into an angry young man who felt the only way to be noticed or exact some kind of revenge was to act out using anti-social behaviour. Little did he know that he was playing right into the hands of his manipulative father. Powerful and thought-provoking. In some parts I thought the writing exceptional, in others a bit wordy, repetitive and clumsy.