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  • Published: 15 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9780091883126
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99

Close to the Edge

My Autobiography




A new updated paperback edition of Jim Davidson's extraordinary Close To The Edge in which he bares his soul and takes us through his best and worst times

'People will be surprised by the honesty of this book. There will be no holds barred' Jim Davidson. Somehow the last decade saw Jim Davidson transformed from foul-mouthed stand-up comic to being the face of BBC light entertainment, Chairman of the British Forces Foundation and close friend of Prince Charles. Close To The Edge details this remarkable change in a fresh and deeply intimate style. Jim comes clean about himself, his actions and his motives. From the times he spent in the rehabilitation clinic to the full story of the break up of his four marriages, he re-evaluates his life in a critical and self-aware manner - making Close to The Edge an entertaining and unusually powerful autobiography.

  • Published: 15 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9780091883126
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

Jim Davidson

Jim Davidson edited Meanjin from 1974 to 1982. He knew Christesen and Murray-Smith, and many others associated with them. His own publications range from a scholarly edition of Anthony Trollope’s South Africa to histories of tourism and postcards. He is best known as a biographer, his Lyrebird Rising (Louise Hanson-Dyer) and A Three-Cornered Life (WK Hancock) winning multiple awards.