Major Major: Memories of an Older Brother (1st Edition)

By Terry Major-Ball

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715626310
• ISBN13: 9780715626313
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd.
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

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"Ever since his brother John became Prime Minister in 1990 Terry Major-Ball has been pestered by journalists wanting to know about his family. How did his father, born and brought up in America, come to be a circus clown, a trapeze artist, a variety show actor, and finally a manufacturer of garden gnomes? How did the family cope with father too old to work and mother looking after him, when they lived in two rooms in Brixton while John was still at school? Eleven years older than John, Terry played a crucial role in keeping the business and the family together at a difficult time. He knows what they went through as no one else does, and he understands the effect this had on John's career and on his own. Whenever he has been asked about his family by newspapers he has found they have taken his remarks out of context to suit the mood of a hostile press. So he resolved to write his own story, and here it is -- candid, funny, sad, eccentric, honest, always compassionate and unfailingly affectionate. It is never grey."