
- 400 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
'A beautiful book'Zoë Ball 'My father was an "ordinary man", which of course means he was extraordinary.' Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, One man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way – his father, Ronnie. In I Love the Bones of You, Eccleston unveils a vivid portrait of a relationship that has shaped his entire career trajectory – mirroring and defining his own highs and lows, from stage and screen triumph to breakdown, anorexia and self-doubt. Eccleston describes how the tightening grip of dementia on his father slowly blinded him to his son's existence, forcing a new and final chapter in their connection. Told with trademark honesty and openness, I Love the Bones of You is a celebration of those on whom the spotlight so rarely shines, as told by a man who found his voice in its glare. A love letter to one man, and a paean to many.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Prologue
- 1 Up the Dancers
- 2 Salford
- 3 Red Devil
- 4 A Vision Denied
- 5 Rage
- 6 Fall and Rise
- 7 Adventure
- 8 Anorexia
- 9 The Bones of Me
- 10 Breakdown
- 11 Balm of Hurt Minds
- 12 Doctor Daddy 1
- 13 Lots of Planets Have a North
- 14 Doctor Daddy 2
- 15 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
- 16 Strangled at Birth
- 17 The Truth
- 18 My Friends in the North
- 19 Man and Masculinity
- 20 Macbeth
- 21 A Mind Diseas’d
- 22 The Ravell’d Sleave of Care
- 23 The End
- 24 I Have Thee Not, and Yet I See Thee Still
- Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright