If you are part of a reading group or want to arrange a night out with a group of book-loving friends, then you might want to take advantage of our special MLF Reading Group Ticket Offer for this event. Book for four or more people and get all your tickets at the concessionary rate. The offer is available online or by phoning our Box Office on 0843 208 0500 and quoting MLF Reading Group Offer at the time of booking.

Michael Frayn is one of this country’s most gifted and celebrated writers. For over 40 years he has dazzled us with his novels, plays, memoirs and essays. In My Father’s Fortune he looks back at the life of his father – a portrait of a man brought up in difficult circumstances who nonetheless managed to overcome both an inauspicious start in life and tragedy and disability in later years. This honest ‘warts and all’ picture makes Frayn’s father intensely human and warm. Frayn acutely describes his own childhood, adolescence and parenthood, and takes us effortlessly back to the 1940s and the daily struggles of surviving Hitler, V1s, growing up and family life.