Dear Lupin Letters to a Wayward Son by Roger Mortimer & Charlie Mortimer

Beautiful, sunny, absolutely irresistable memoir  Dear Lupin

Letters to a Wayward Son by Roger Mortimer & Charlie Mortimer published by Constable. I picked up this copy of the book at the second hand store located in Umbertide, Books for Dogs.

This one is the long correspondence of a dad born in 1909, a pretty known man (journalist at the Sunday Times) with his son, through many decades, the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. We will assist at the various different existential phases of Charlie's existence. His becoming a man, failing some schools, entering in the Army, changing job a lot of times, always with the support, appreciation, worries of his dad. Letters include suggestions, domestic issues, illness, books read and suggestions, daily family life, big and little events.

What I appreciate of this book is the warm sensation transmitted by these letters, including the sunny and funny reflections of Charlie at the end of most of them, commenting the moment, what it was going on and why; often he distanced ironically himself from the positions and visions of his dad regarding what he had to do of his own existence.

There is a lot of that healthy, wonderful hilarious british irony that I love so badly and that makes the difference.

A wonderful reading for everyone!

Highly recommended.

Anna Maria Polidori