‘In some of the most affecting passages of the book, he reveals his own pain and even murderous feelings in the face of grief and mortality. At his saddest he asks what consolation art can be. With writing as beautiful as his, he answers the question’ The Times

‘A masterpiece of devotion, wit and poetic grace’ Mail on Sunday

‘Morrison’s humanity shines through this marvellous memoir’ New Statesman

‘An extraordinary, moving account of a son’s relationship with his father’ Marie Claire

‘Blake Morrison has written a moving tribute for the living as much as the dead in compelling prose, untinted by sentiment’ Time Out

‘A fine and courageous book’ Sunday Independent

‘More than any novel could be, And when did you last see your father ? is the once-only, all-or-nothing book of a poet: the life held up so close to one’s face that one can smell it, touch it, marvel at the power of words to unlock and unravel, then pour helter-skelter over our hands this magical brainstorm of memories’ Spectator