Ramble Book: Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture

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A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

An affectionate and revealing account Funny,sad, real, rueful. The Times

Warm, rambling and self-aware Guardian

The long-awaited, rambling, tender, and very funny memoir from Adam Buxton
Ramble

/ ramb( )l/

Verb

1. walk for pleasure in the countryside.

Dr Buckles and Rosie the dog love rambling in the countryside.

2. talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way.

Adam rambles on about lots of consequential, compelling and personal matters in his tender, insightful, hilarious and totally unconfused memoir, Ramble Book.

Ramble Book is about parenthood, boarding school trauma, arguing with your partner, bad parties, confrontations on trains, friendship, wanting to fit in, growing up in the 80s, dead dads, teenage sexual anxiety, failed artistic endeavours, being a David Bowie fan; and how everything you read, watch and listen to as a child forms a part of the adult you become.

Its also a book about the joys of going off topic and letting your mind wander.

And its about a short, hairy, frequently confused man called Adam Buxton.

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I recommendRamble Book There are wonderful, melancholy passages about his father, and Bowie, and 80s nostalgia, perfect for those of us who get teary-eyed remembering the first time we heard Dexys Midnight Runners or whatever. Jon Ronson

Give yourself some love with Adam Buxtons funny and movingRamble Book. Stylist

Had me guffawing and bawling simultaneously. Daily Telegraph

Like listening to your most goofily funny friend on his finest form. Daily Mirror

A work that feels spontaneous and fresh The triumph of the book is Buxtons account of his relationship with his father. The ways in which Adams expectations of an emotional reconciliation fail to match reality make for some beautifully tragi-comic scenes. Daily Express

An extremely funny and insightful coming-of-age story. Mail on Sunday

Eminently relatable and effortlessly readable with a penchant for sly jokes just when you dont expect them. Chortle

Author Bio

Adam Buxton is a British comedian, podcaster, actor and director who has appeared in films such as Hot Fuzz, Stardust and Son Of Rambow as well as a variety of TV shows in the UK.He is the host of The Adam Buxton Podcast, in which celebrity interviews are bookended with walks in the Norfolk countryside, where he lives with his wife, three children and dog Rosie. Along with lifelong friend and director Joe Cornish, Adam is one half of TV, radio and podcast duo Adam & Joe who have worked together since 1995.