Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Crying over a Jasper Fforde book (Something Rotten) means that there is no clear or intelligible way to explain it to someone who hasn't read the series.