{"product_id":"at-my-mothers-knee-9780593059258","title":"At My Mother's Knee","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his own uniquely acid tongue  Paul OGrady traces the hilarious tales of life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that took him from a virtuous altar-boy (\"my first drag\") to Britains best loved entertainer. Its a life that includes  varyingly  stints in an abbatoir  as a social worker  in a high-class Mayfair brothel  and traipsing down to London to chase his dreams. By 23  Paul OGrady had been a father  husband  drag queen  gay lover  divorcee  and degenerate. He did it all with a smile on his face  making a mental note to register the whip-smart one-liners that would later inform his star-studded path from the fringes of comedy to the heart of the British establishment  first as his own brilliant comic creation Lily Savage  then  triumphantly  as himself. Pauls remarkable childhood and early life is littered with a dizzying cast-list of rogues  rascals  lovers  fighters  saints  and sinners. Oh  and one iconic bus conductress. Told with pathos  love  empathy  and naturally  biting humor  the story of Paul OGrady is that of everyman  everywoman  and inevitably  every drag act ever. He has been rich and poor  posh and common  straight and gay. He has mixed with stars and whores and all thats in between  slyly spotting the similarity between them all. His amazing and riveting life story reminds us that there is  when all is said and done  a bit of savage in all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45965861716021,"sku":"ByrdShop_0593059255","price":52.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780593059258.jpg?v=1788370927","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/at-my-mothers-knee-9780593059258","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}