On his 36th birthday Jonathan Joly found himself sitting on an airport lavatory, hiding from his wife and children. “I could smell the fresh air, and the noise of the water from the tap was now the sound of a river flowing,” he tells us. “The airport hum was fading into the background and being replaced by the sounds of a world I once lived in, a place I’d called home many years ago, a place I had forgotten.” Jonathan and his family had been having breakfast while waiting for their flight to be called.
It is a startling opening to a memoir, and all the more startling since Joly is known to millions since he began sharing his life on YouTube in 2014. He