Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour review: a moving and spiky memoir

Instead of bothering to go to his estranged son’s wedding, Charlie Gilmour’s biological father sends him a statuette of the Cenotaph. There is no note or explanation, but it marks the point in Gilmour’s moving, though often spiky, memoir Featherhood in which everything starts to unlock.The bizarre gift from Heathcote Williams, the writer and anarchist, threatens to ignite the “residual flame” of an anger that caused a 21-year old Gilmour to scale the real monument d