Uncle Dysfunctional: Uncompromising Answers to Life’s Most Painful Problems

From 2011 up until his death at the end of 2016, the inimitable AA Gill reigned supreme as Uncle Dysfunctional, Esquire’s resident advice columnist. In this raffish, hilarious, scathing yet often surprisingly humane collection, Gill applies his unmatched wit to the largest and smallest issues of our time. Whether you’re struggling to satisfy your other half, having a crisis over your baldness, don’t like your daughter’s boyfriend, or need the definitive rules on shorts, leather jackets and man-bags, AA Gill has all the answers – but you’d better brace yourself first.

Reviews of Uncle Dysfunctional: Uncompromising Answers to Life’s Most Painful Problems

Gill is a wit and a charmer. Even when he's wrong, he's superbly full of himself — LYNN BARBER He was the best writer. Nobody even came close — INDIA KNIGHT He never once produced a boring sentence or a phrase that did not shine — JOHN WITHEROW The king of irreverent critics — LIONEL BARBER A giant among journalists … His wit was incomparable, his writing was dazzling and fearless, his intelligence was matched by compassion — MARTIN IVENS