Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father - Softcover

He has written the truth as he saw it, and written it with passion, charm - and self-awareness (Craig Brown Mail on Sunday)

The book brims with humour and each sentence is a delight to read (Andrew Wilson Independent)

This glorious memoir - funny and poignant in equal measure (Brian Viner Daily Mail)

There is much that is moving in Mars-Jones's memoir of his father... The writing sings with cleverness and wit (Claudia FitzHerbert The Sunday Telegraph)

Mars-Jones's memoir, clotted and rich and true, does its job rather well (Rachel Cooke New Statesman)

The account... of caring for his father is especially touching (Kate Kellaway The Observer)

Intensely written (Elisa Segrave The Spectator)

His most remarkable book to date, which is in turns knowing and dextrous, hilarious and poignant (Richard Canning Literary Review)

Mars-Jones's achievement in Kid Gloves is to portray such painful moments with humour and grace... Kid Gloves is full of truth about the ironies of family life, of the ways that we define ourselves through our parents and against them (Bee Wilson Sunday Times)

The book brims with humour and each sentence is a delight to read. It also contains - courtesy of an extended metaphor drawn from Jane Grigson's recipe for cooking salmon in a court-bouillon - one of the best descriptions of sibling rivalry in contemporary literature. Above all, it is a celebration of language, a love shared by father and son alike (Andrew Wilson Independent)