And Away..., Bob Mortimer
And Away..., Bob Mortimer
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And Away...

Author: Bob Mortimer

Narrator: Bob Mortimer

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/16/2021


Synopsis

The number one bestseller and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year by national treasure Bob Mortimer.
‘The most life-affirming, joyful read of the year’ - Sunday Times

‘Winningly heartfelt’ – The Guardian

‘A triumph’ – Daily Mail
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.)

About Bob Mortimer

Bob Mortimer was born in Middlesbrough in 1959, the youngest of four sons. He trained as a solicitor before a chance encounter with Vic Reeves in the 1980s led to a successful career in comedy as half of duo Reeves and Mortimer. His screen credits include Shooting Stars, Big Night Out, Catterick and most recently BBC2's Gone Fishing. His memoir, And Away…, published in 2021. It became the bestselling memoir of the year and was named Times and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year. His first novel, The Satsuma Complex, was published in 2022 and won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for Comic Fiction. The sequel, The Hotel Avocado, was an immediate number one bestseller on release in 2024. His books have now sold over 2 million copies. He's on Twitter and Instagram as @RealBobMortimer.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on September 17, 2021

Shame he dies in the end.......more

Goodreads review by R on September 15, 2021

A lovely book about the impact that loss and shyness can have, and how a few really good friends can come along at just the right time to change the course of your life.......more

Goodreads review by David on November 28, 2021

Reading this felt like sitting down and having a chat with Bob. And let's be honest, that's something we'd all be happy to do.......more

Goodreads review by Gary on October 10, 2021

This is an excellent read by one of the funniest men around. I have been looking forward to this one for sometime now and it was well worth waiting for. Strangely enough I don’t particularly like the comedy programmes he appears in with Vic Reeves but find him laugh out loud funny both in print and......more

Goodreads review by Amy on September 19, 2021

Funniest man alive, so of course I was going to enjoy this book, but I really really loved it, laughed, cried and just felt an overall privilege to hear about his life! Highly recommend......more


Quotes

‘a triumph… And Away is as good a celebrity autobiography as you could hope to read, and enthusiastically recommend.’

‘…(a) fascinating and often poignant memoir.’

‘The book, too, grows more confident in talking about serious subjects as it progresses and it’s the honesty and openness that he allows in Gone Fishing that make And Away…, by the end, an unexpectedly moving read’

‘A glorious collection of stories from an extraordinary life. Once you put it down, you may get the immediate urge to pick it up again. Yes, you couldn’t let it lie.’

‘Bob Mortimer is pretty much established as a national treasure…So it's great to hear his story of how he got there first-hand…In the end he has become loved for being himself. And maybe that's the best type of success of all.’

‘Bob’s recent reinvention via the …Gone Fishing series means a whole new audience might indeed be surprised at how many different things he’s done and will particularly admire the non-showbiz route to stardom in our age of driven but ultimately vacuous and content-free superstars.’ 

‘It’s a precarious world, but And Away... is a heartfelt testament to the magic of finding your happy place within it.’

‘(a) touching, funny autobiography.'

‘(a) comic masterpiece of a memoir: melancholically amusing, warm and witty’

‘Filled with anecdotes from Mortimer’s life, And Away… contrasts humour with a deeper contemplation of life following his open-heart surgery’