J. R. Ackerley

Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships.

Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man.

This powerful short novel, with its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, was described by J. R. Ackerley himself as "a fairy tale for adults."