Parents Sex Memoirs

Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | Bill Bryson recalls how sex was a confusing business in 1950s Des Moines: "To my surprise, my parents were in bed wrestling under the sheets. And my mother was winning

From sneaking in to see the steamy Peyton Place to stripping off in a tree house, sex was a confusing business in 1950s Des Moines - as Bill Bryson recalls in the latest excerpt from his hilarious new memoir "

This is an edited extract from The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson, published by Doubleday at £18.99