Book Review
Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father by Adam Mars-Jones
When his widowed father – once a high court judge and always a formidable figure – drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship. Kid Gloves is a highly entertaining book about (among other things) families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity. It is necessarily also a book about the writer himself – and the implausible, long-delayed moment, some years before, when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation, taking the homophobic bull by the horns.
William Mars-Jones with
Adam behind him
Adam behind him
