In the memoir, Wollheim captures in sensuous detail the textures of an upper middle-class childhood in Surrey, near London, in the 1930s, with the usual features: chauffeurs, nannies, seaside vacations (with the nanny), coincollecting, corporal punishment at school.
Security had to ask Mario , the billionaire gold-coin-collecting plumber from Brooklyn, to leave after he threatened to jump on the other guests' heads.
