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- Narrated by: Bob Mortimer
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The number one best seller and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year by national treasure Bob Mortimer.
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until, suddenly in 2015, he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him but forced him to reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for his hilarious and moving memoir, And Away....
Although his childhood in Middlesbrough was normal on the surface, it was tinged by the loss of his dad and his own various misadventures (now infamous from his appearances on Would I Lie to You?), from burning down the family home to starting a short-lived punk band called Dog Dirt. As an adult, he trained as a solicitor and moved to London. Though he was doing pretty well (the South London Press once crowned him ‘The Cockroach King’ after a successful verdict), a chance encounter in a pub in the 1980s with a young comedian going by the name Vic Reeves set his life on a different track. And now, six years on, the heart condition that once threatened his career has instead led to new success on BBC2’s Gone Fishing.
Warm, profound and irrepressibly funny, And Away is Bob’s full life story (with a few lies thrown in for good measure).
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- Loubottle
- 2022-05-06
finished it in 2 days
The only book I've downloaded without trying out the sample first and I wasn't proved wrong by asumming I'd just enjoy his lovely voice and stories. The way he met Vic was so tenuous with just the right timing of life events that you shudder to think the world might never have know Vic AND Bob, the team. Was lovely to his mum, too. Aww.
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- Donald S.
- 2023-09-20
Bob Mortimer is a National Treasure
This book is enjoyable from start to finish. I wish it was longer and I hope Bob lives many more years so that there is a follow up second volume.
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- Krista Boutilier
- 2023-12-19
Lovely Bob at his best
Finished it quickly. Found it really interesting to learn about Bobs younger life. He came across as genuine & just as funny & kind as he does on the telly
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- Bea
- 2022-08-02
So uplifting and funny.
Didn’t think I could love Bob Mortimer more. A great storyteller!! Such generosity of spirit. His gratitude for all work and colleagues is inspiring. Whipped through this in less than two days.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-08-18
Easy and interesting listen
So great to have this book read by Bob himself. As he says at the beginning, its opinion free. Just pure story telling. Loved it.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-11-07
Great, but why the f**k is this censored?
I love Bob Mortimer, and while he, by his own account, is a bad actor, this book comes across very well. It's quite well written, and though he's clearly not great at narration in the larger degree, in the smaller degree, and overall the audiobook does benefit from the author telling his own life story.
I have one major complaint, though, which is (as per my headline) why the fuck is this censored? He says "c**t" at one point (which to UK residents is a fairly common unisex toss-around pejorative for being a tool), and it's bleeped out. It's a book. Don't censor my books. Especially without telling me, and without understanding the meaning of the word in the geographical context it's used. And especially when the man who wrote it regularly uses similar words in his very public television work. It's like publishing George Carlin's 7 words you can't say on TV, and bleeping the lot of them. Get over yourselves. They're just words. And not even demonstrably or deliberately harmful ones.
Oh, I'm so very sorry, I have to censor myself now just to get this complaint about them censoring the expected words of an author who speaks that way published. Time to go back and add asterisks' despite everyone knowing what words I'm using, and this helping nobody.
Great book. Good, if iffy, read by the author. Censored for no f**cking reason.
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- Christopher M.
- 2022-03-19
Very enjoyable
A great peek inside Bob Mortimer's head. I'm glad he wrote it and glad I read it
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-01-13
Spruce Forsyth
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."
-Bob Mortimer
Heartfelt and very, very funny.
Thanks for this, Bob.
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- Rich
- 2023-10-24
Great story!
Loved his appearances on would i lie to you and wanted to hear more about him. It held up and was a good listen
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-01-29
Love Bob but decent book
Love Bob and his work and this was a good, easy listen but overall an average read.
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