Extract from Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists, London: Jonathan Cape (2016), as cited by Rachel Cooke in "David Aaronovitch: Me, Mum, Dad… and Stalin", The Observer (10 January 2016)
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[On his mother] She was disapproving when I grew my hair long and even more disapproving when, a few years later, I cut it again. I had, in a sense, let my own hair down.
— David Aaronovitch
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About David Aaronovitch
David Morris Aaronovitch (born 8 July 1954) is an English journalist, broadcaster and author. He is the author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000), Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History (2009) and Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists (2016). He won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, and the What the Papers Say "Columnist of the Year" award for 2003. He has written for The Independent, The Guardian and The Times.
About David Aaronovitch
David Morris Aaronovitch (born 8 July 1954) is an English journalist, broadcaster and author. He is the author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000), Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History (2009) and Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists (2016). He won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, and the What the Papers Say "Columnist of the Year" award for 2003. He has written for The Independent, The Guardian and The Times.
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