How to manage your mother. Alyce Faye Cleese & Brian Bates. 1999.

Drawing on exclusive interviews with people ranging from a circus Lion tamer to a New York cab driver, a computer consultant to a 99-year-old grandmother to well-known figures including Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Palin, General Colin Powell, Lauren Hutton, Stephen Sondheim, Mia Farrow, Nicole Farhil, Paddy Ashdown and Michael Winner - as well as Alyce Faye’s husband, John Cleese - this inspirational book shows how different people have coped with all the issues that face us in getting on with our mother. How to Manage your Mother will help readers to understand their own mother, come to terms with her and ultimately, with themselves.