The Devil Rides Out (love the title) isn’t as comedic as his first autobiography but it was still an enjoyable, if slow, read! It’s more about his past places of work and how he built himself up in his career in the very beginning.

That familiar scouse accent, their biting wit… Losing Paul hit me alot harder than I ever could have imagined. I remember my surprise and delight when I realised that Lily and Paul were the same person. I liked Blankity Blank with Lily Savage (Paul’s Drag Queen persona) and then The Paul O’Grady Show, a chat show that he hosted. I read his first when it was first released back when I was younger, I always have liked to read autobiographies from a young age and I was very familiar with Paul from the TV when I was growing up. I decided to get copies of Paul O’Grady’s autobiography series (there’s 4 in total) for my Kindle after his untimely passing.

The Devil Rides Out - one hell of a read! Wickedly funny, often moving, and searingly honest, Paul's tales of the unexpected will make your jaw drop and your hair stand on end. Its extraordinary cast of characters includes lords and ladies, the legendary Vera, a serial killer, more prostitutes than you can shake a stick at and drag queens of every shape and size. To say that The Devil Rides Out is action-packed is an understatement. Along the way, he takes his first-Savage steps on stage, tastes the exotic delights of Manila and invades Poland. Work takes him from an abattoir to a children's home, from a hospital to a nightclub, and from penthouse to pavement. As Paul struggles to get to grips with unexpected fatherhood and bereavement, he searches high and low for a job that lasts and somehow finds himself getting married in the process.

The further adventures of Paul O'Grady - following on from the million-copy-selling At My Mother's Knee - are, if anything, even more hilarious and outrageous than what has come before. As he bids farewell to his mum, who's on the phone to his auntie, and wanders off down the street in a cloud of aftershave, he hears her familiar cry: 'Oh, the devil rides out tonight, Annie. New white T-shirt, freshly ironed jeans, looking good. The eighteen-year-old Paul O'Grady gets ready for a big Saturday night out on the town.

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