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Sat 02 Feb 2010Madness or suburbia?
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: CARLO GÉBLERreviews Waking up in Toytownby John Burnside, Jonathan Cape, 262pp, £16.99
THE POET and novelist John Burnside’s first memoir, A Lie About My Fatherwas a savage account of his fraught childhood and adolescence with an alcoholic father and a saintly mother. For those who wondered what happened to Burnside in later life we now have the answer: it’s in his second memoir, Waking Up in Toytown.
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