It’s Who You Know.

This Last Richard Holloway book was put on sale yesterday, and I finished it today. I knew Richard well, and he was/is a hero of mine. Superb parish priest, bishop, preacher, prophet, champion of the poor, the marginalised and the dispossessed.

It’s quite a surreal experience to read something autobiographical, and you know or knew some of the people and all of the places.

I have read most, if not all that he’s written and that is quite a lot, but as he comes near the end of his life, his writing is more reflective of times gone by. This is mainly about his childhood in Alexandria, before, during and after the war.

I don’t often recommend books, but this one had me in tears and in out loud laughter.