Sara Wheeler

Jonathan Raban’s last hurrah

Aged 69, the travel writer had a stroke and spent his last 20 years as a hemiplegic – and writing this memoir of his father’s life intertwined with snapshots of his own

Jonathan Raban in downtown Seattle in the 1990s. [Getty]

  • Father and Son: A Memoir About Family, the Past and Mortality

    Jonathan Raban

    Picador, pp. 332, £22

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