Patient

Ben Watt

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness

Patient: The true story of a rare illness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

VIKING

Ben Watt's father, Tommy, was a working-class Glaswegian jazz musician, a politicised left-wing bandleader and a composer. His heyday in the late fifties took him into the glittering heart of London's West End, where he broadcast live with his own orchestra from the Paris Theatre and played nightly with his quintet at the the glamorous Quaglino's. Ben's mother, Romany, the daughter of a Methodist parson, schooled at Cheltenham Ladies' College, was a RADA-trained Shakespearian actress, who had triplets in her  first marriage before becoming a leading showbiz columnist in the.sixties and seventies. They were both divorcees from very different backgrounds who came together like  colliding trains in 1957. Both a personal journey and a  portrait of his parents, Romany and Tom is a vivid story  of the post-war years, ambition and stardom, family roots and secrets,  life in clubs and in care homes. It is also about who we are, where we  come from, and how we love and live with each other for a long time.

Romany and Tom: A Memoir

Memoirs

Bloomsbury Circus

In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, Ben Watt, one half of the Billboard-topping pop duo Everything but the Girl, was taken to a London hospital complaining of chest pain. He didn't leave for two and a half months. Watt had developed a rare, life-threatening disease that initially baffled doctors. By the time he was allowed home, his ravaged body was 46 pounds lighter, and he was missing most of his small intestine. Watt injects pathos and humor into his medical nightmare, writing about his childhood, reflecting on his family and on his shared life with band member and partner Tracey Thorn. The result is a provocative and affecting memoir about life, illness, and survival.

Arts & Literature

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