KID GLOVES

When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the write r Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship. In the aftermath of an unlooked-for intimacy, Mars-Jones has written a book devoted to particular emotions and events. Kid Gloves is a highly entertaining book about (among other things) families, the legal professio...[Read more]