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Along the way Blond encountered many of the great and not so good of our times, providing him with a treasure chest of wonderfully entertaing anecdotes about figures as illustrious as John Betjeman, as notorious as Robert Maxwell and as obscure as Sir Anthony de Hoghton, a wealthy profligate who ended up a beggar in Sloane Square, in sharp contrast to the fate of fellow Blond cronies Jimmy Goldsmith, John Aspinall and Alan Clark.
Raised in the Jewish haute bougeoisie - his father the founder of the Royal Court Theatre, his step-mother a Marks as in Marks and Spencer - and educated at Eton and Oxford, Anthony Blond has produced an intimate, often touching memoir of his childhood, his education and his bizarre collection of relatives, wives, children and friends. Blond writes frankly and hilariously about his bisexuality - whether running aground with a young Sarah Miles on the Beaulieu River or running amok in Australia with a handsome beach boy - and, most movingly, of his profound awareness of his own Jewishness.
Funny, erudite, sharp and slyly self-depreciating, Jew Made in England is a delightful celebration of a free spirit which no social, sexual, racial, religious or geographical boundary has been able to contain.
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