running in the family

The band formed on the Isle of Wight and had a string of hits including Lessons in Love and Running in the Family.

The co-creator of the comedy series “Those Who Can’t,” about a group of less than inspiring high school teachers, Mr. Cayton-Holland talks below about humor running in the family, and how the book unexpectedly led him to forgiveness and more.

His parents, tea planters, separated when he was about seven, when his mother moved to England; he would, decades later, in Running in the Family describe in both funny and heartbreaking prose his father’s eventual lonely death from alcoholism.

In Running in the Family he describes his impetus for memoir as a feeling that he had “slipped past a childhood I had ignored and not understood”.

Some sources report such tags running in the family, with daughters inheriting the status from their mothers.