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But in the end ''Semi-Detached'' lacked the exceptional story or insight to lift it above other examples of the genre. Like so many premature partial autobiographies, it stops just before fame intervenes - when it could have become more than another competent plod through childhood and adolescence.
If I want to read such stories, I'd rather turn to novels like Jonathan Coe's [[The Rotters' Club]], or superior memoirs such as Blake Morrison's [[''And When Did You Last See Your Father?]] '' They achieve the sort of depth and resonance to which this book aspires but which it rarely achieves.
If you enjoy showbusiness or theatrical memoirs of a slightly earlier generation, I'd recommend Alan Bennett's [[Untold Stories]], or [[The Year of the Jouncer]] by Simon Gray.
