\'Your brother looked healthy, happy, natural.
It is a memoir unlike any other..
Punctuated with excerpts from The Queue and Jonathan\'s other bizarre and brilliant writings, Animal Magic is a book bursting with humour, wit and pathos and featuring an outlandish cast of characters, from an eccentric father, a mischievous family dog and a down-and-out ex-schoolmaster to curious stars of Swinging London like Mick Jagger and Tommy Cooper.
This spellbinding elegy negotiates love affairs, family tensions, exhibitions, publishers\' rejections and precarious living in a flat in Tite Street, Chelsea.
Filled with fascinating and fantastical anecdotes, Animal Magic documents a heady and peripatetic childhood in Lancashire, the Lake District and Wiltshire, misadventures at home and school, and the early working life of the two brothers, on the lower rungs of show business, backstage at Claridge\'s, and finally in advertising.
Jonathan and his book form the framework of a remarkable study of a young man\'s inner and outer effervescence, his family, England and high and low society in the Swinging Sixties.
The Story of a boy and a dachshund, populated by a kaleidoscopic menagerie of people and animals and an array of anthropomorphic in-betweens, The Queue is a vivid and irreverent portrayal of the world in which Jonathan and his awe-struck older brother Andrew were raised.
He left behind the manuscript of a novel, The Queue, in which, among other things, he prophesied his own death.
He\'s the opposite of you.\' Quentin Crisp At the age of twenty-two, the youngest of five brothers, Jonathan Barrow, was killed with his fiancee in a car crash.
Except in appearance.
Extremely odd.
Not faintly odd.
But everything else about him is extremely odd. \'Your brother looked healthy, happy, natural
