Will Self

When he came back, even though he was an intellectual and so forth, he still expected her to cook him dinner.

And she hated it.

Her reaction to the phenomenon that people now call patriarchy was visceral.

She viscerally had a contempt for...

for the idea that men should have any social or domestic superiority whatsoever.

When we were late from walking on the heath for lunch, mum would take the roast and throw it on the lawn so that we got home to a deconstructed Englishness.

LAUGHTER

My father's attempts to somehow have a normal middle-class life were continually being exploded.

No, meets him in America.

Oh, first.

Gets knocked up in the States.

Comes over.

This is your elder brother.

He was married as well.

He was married to Diana Pitt, who worked for many, many years as Rocco Forti's right-hand woman, very successful businesswoman.

My father's first wife only died very recently in her late 90s, Diana.

Very beautiful and extraordinary story.

She was unable to have children because her mother had been a Christian scientist and wouldn't let them operate when she had appendicitis.

So they had to perform a hysterectomy.

married my father knowing that she was unable to have kids he knew as well but then he got broody he wanted children that's the condom so he got he got broody he got drunk yeah brother is we drank a lot he drank all the time my father drank all the time how long is it before you come along