Backing Into Light: My Father’s Son by Colin Spencer (2013)
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Overview: Colin Spencer is a writer and artist who has produced a prolific body of work in a wide variety of media since his first published short stories and drawings appeared in The London Magazine and Encounter when he was twenty-two years old.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs > LGBT+
Since his first novel in 1959, Colin Spencer has written eight more and published many short stories both here and in America. His masterly Generation series, describing the anarchic lives of a group of young people growing up in the late 1950s, remain one of the great novel sequences of the twentieth century. Best remembered now perhaps as a food writer, his column was published for fourteen years in the Guardian and his epic British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History reissued in 2011.
Review:
‘A work of stunning candour … the book is among other things a startling indictment of the tortures of enforced secrecy. Written in a straightforward manner with no attempt to gloss over the unacceptable or deny the contradictions, this is a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life’ –Duncan Fallowell, Spectator
‘Riveting. Most people who write about sex do so in a completely bizarre way, as if they have not only never performed any sexual acts themselves, but have never met anyone else who has done either. I can’t remember when I last read a book that was so authentic, convincing, wise and funny about sex as yours. My Father’s Son should be compulsory reading for bloody Lord Dear, all bishops and imams, and every prude and prig in the country. It’s a book that resonates thunderously for me: Spencer makes so much sense of things. He makes such converts of his readers’ –Richard Davenport-Hines –.
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