“Not your ordinary, egotistical, name-dropping show business autobiography, it’s a most enjoyable recounting of an unusual life.”
— Associated Press

“Lively and amusing.”
— Kirkus Reviews

His wealth of adventures and anecdotes includes heroic deeds, like his rescue of eight chimps from the burning home of a Hollywood animal trainer, and some not so heroic, like his eighteen­vodka airplane ride with Richard Burton.

But his best stories are about the characters from his childhood in a lunatic, upper-class household. At an early age, his eccentric and beautiful mother took him to live with her lesbian lover, “Uncle Evelyn,” whose neighboring mansion housed quite a harem. Despite her dislike of little boys, Evelyn paid for Patrick’s education until he was expelled from Eton for his activities as a bookie and seller of pornography. His father, an alcoholic racehorse trainer, provided for Patrick by giving him the inside tips for his book.