Lucky Lupin
A Memoir
$24.27
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2017
Summary
Lucky Lupin is a poignant yet light-hearted story of survival against the odds, based on Charlie Mortimer’s life with HIV/Aids during the early years (1984-1996), when there was neither treatment nor cure.
Using a combination of good luck, gallows humour, Fray Bentos pies and copious quantities of Solpadeine, Charlie survived not only the illness but the hysteria that accompanied the so-called ‘gay plague’. Anyone infected became a social pariah; had the local launderette got…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472122421 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472122429 |
| Author: | Charlie Mortimer |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 126mm x 197mm x 20mm |
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A cast of outlandish relatives and friends with seemingly limitless reserves of black humour– Sunday Times
A cast of outlandish relatives and friends with seemingly limitless reserves of black humour - Sunday Times
Funny and stoical … Lucky Lupin is quite simply a reflection on life and on living, with its joys … its challenges … and its miseries … Charlie’s story is humorous, his voice is stoical and his account feels very honest … The wayward son turns out to be somebody one would like to meet, know and to befriend - The OldieAbout The Author
Charlie Mortimer
Charlie Mortimer was educated at Wellesley House and (reluctantly) Eton. He was, among other things, an officer in the Coldstream Guards, a vintage car restorer, oil rig roughneck and pop group manager, as well as a boat boy/mechanic in Kenya, a car salesman in California, a scrap-metal dealer, a manufacturer of boxer shorts in Asia, an antiques dealer and contemporary art collector. He now describes himself as ‘a somewhat decrepit middle aged, middle class spiv (mostly retired)’. He recently edited his late father’s (Roger Mortimer) letters to him in the Sunday Times bestseller Dear Lupin, which was subsequently adapted into a West End play. He currently lives with his partner in London.
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