Germs: a memoir of childhood

The son of affluent parents – a distant, dandified impresario father he revered; a beautiful, mindless ´Gaiety Girl´ mother he came to regret loathing – Richard Wollheim grew up in the English suburbia of the 1920s and 1930s. Germs is his account of those years. It is a book like no other; a remarkable exploration of childhood by one of the English-speaking world´s most distinguished postwar thinkers.