Product Description

Paul struggles to get to grips with unexpected fatherhood and bereavement, he searches high and low for a job that lasts and somehow finds himself getting married in the process. Work takes him from an abattoir to a children's home, from a hospital to a nightclub, and from penthouse to pavement.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9721 in Books
• Published on: 2010-09-16
• Released on: 2010-09-16
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.19" w x 6.37" l, 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

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Review
If you only buy one celeb memoir this year, make it this one. --News of the World

La Cage Aux meets Withnail and I --Sunday Times

O'Grady has subversively used his celebrity clout to write a real autobiography, quite simply -- detailed, fluent and engaging, quite remarkably showing sustained and sympathetic interest in all the people he knew ... strikingly original, a rewarding read whether or not you're a big O'Grady fan already. --Evening Standard

Even funnier and more touching than his first volume ... I defy anyone not to enjoy this book. --Jilly Cooper

His turn of phrase is a joy. --The Sunday Times

From the Inside Flap

Birkenhead, 1973. The eighteen-year-old Paul O'Grady gets ready for a big Saturday night out on the town. New white T-shirt, freshly ironed jeans, looking good. As he bids farewell to his mum, who's on the phone to his auntie, and wanders off down the street in a cloud of aftershave, he hears her familiar cry: 'Oh, the devil rides out tonight, Annie. The Devil rides out!'

The further adventures of Paul O'Grady - following on from the million-copy-selling At My Mother's Knee - are, if anything, even more hilarious and outrageous than what has come before. As Paul struggles to get to grips with unexpected fatherhood and bereavement, he searches high and low for a job that lasts and somehow finds himself getting married in the process. Work takes him from an abattoir to a children's home, from a hospital to a nightclub, and from penthouse to pavement. Along the way, he takes his first-Savage steps on stage, tastes the exotic delights of Manila and invades Poland . . .

To say that The Devil Rides Out is action-packed is an understatement. Its extraordinary cast of characters includes lords and ladies, the legendary Vera, a serial killer, more prostitutes than you can shake a stick at and drag queens of every shape and size. Wickedly funny, often moving, and searingly honest, Paul's tales of the unexpected will make your jaw drop and your hair stand on end. And you'll laugh like a drain.

The Devil Rides Out - one hell of a read!

From the Back Cover

'Far and away the best writer of the lot... his turn of phrase is a joy'

Sunday Times

Birkenhead, 1973. The eighteen-year-old Paul O'Grady gets ready for a big Saturday night out. New white T-shirt, freshly ironed jeans, looking good. As he bids farewell to his mum, who's on the phone to his auntie, and wanders off down the street in a cloud of aftershave, he hears her familiar cry: 'Oh, the devil rides out tonight, Annie. The devil rides out!'

The further adventures of Paul O'Grady - following on from the million-copy-selling At My Mother's Knee - are, if anything, even more hilarious and outrageous than what has come before. To say that The Devil Rides Out is action-packed is an understatement. Its extraordinary cast of characters includes lords and ladies, the legendary Vera, a notorious serial killer, more prostitutes than you can shake a stick at and drag queens of every shape and size.

Wickedly funny, often moving, and searingly honest, Paul's tales of the unexpected will make your jaw drop and your hair stand on end. And you'll laugh like a drain. The Devil Rides Out is one hell of a read!

'Warm, moving and funny'

Independent