Ian Whitcomb
At Least They’ve Got It Off Their Chests
Take a Girl Like Me: Life with George
By Diana Melly
Chatto & Windus 277pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
Slowing Down
By George Melly
Viking 220pp £17.99 order from our bookshop
Here we have a strange case. This married couple of forty-five years – a team well known to the chattering classes and beloved by local media, yet invisible to the world beyond the British Isles, exemplars of a privileged bohemianism noted for its unbridled, incestuous satyriasis, inevitably trailing behind it a sad string of bewildered children – have chosen, perhaps because they had nothing better to do and perhaps because of cocktail connections to London’s publishers, to let it all hang out in a double-act confessional, a sort of hard-copy blog of jokes and careless tragedies, much of which (the husband’s diarrhoea and the wife’s masturbation) is more testimony than we need to hear. But, like prattling couch patients, at least they’ve got it off their chests.
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