An accomptished - often remarkabte - collection... [marked by] assured prose, observation, pathos and wit. From a youth who impresses girls by wrestling a Swaledale ram to an evening in London, at Ronnie Scott's. with the funniest description of a jazz gig I have ever read... More Grimm reatist than grim reatist. Broady shares with Hockney, another Iocal lad made good, the art of surprising us with a perspective of a place we thought we knew.