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S5, Ep1 How to Fail: Nigel Slater

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

CHAPTER

The Disappointment of a Parent

I was quite feminine as a child, I used to call me Nancy Boy. My father wanted somebody who would continue his life's work. And that wasn't going to be me. When he realized it wasn't, the disappointment was so vast and so huge. You could see the disappointment in his eyes. He genuinely felt I let him down. The great tragedy of that is that you never got to have a conversation with your father as an adult because he died at 16.

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