While facing grief, illness and a very public breakup, the comic reached for his diaries – and found a happy kid who spiralled into despair. Inspired by a Nobel laureate, he wrote a frank, funny book about that boy and what he grew into It begins on Christmas Day, 1996: “It’s been a lovely day …...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/21/standup-jon-richardson-teenage-diaries-tearjerker-memoir)

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