Good fun,light hearted, lots of little amusing tales from his childhood, heard abridged version on Rado,wonder if any serious stuff in it at all,doubt it somehow...but that makes a nice change...borrowed childhood? Mmm I wonder... ( )

Many parts of this book are laugh-out-loud funny, and I was inclined to trust that it was an autobiography for a while, but eventually the disbelief could no longer be kept in supense.

One story in particular had me puzzled: if we're to believe John C Masterman and others, all German agents in Britain during WW2 were detected and in many cases turned by the British authorities. In Kington's book though, his father is lured into spying for the Germans for a while.

Anyway, if you like his other work you'll find this up to his wonderfully inventive standard. ( )

http://www.shvoong.com/books/autobiography/1757514-/ ( )