![]() I think I was about six years old when I decided I wanted to be a writer. Combine these with your dad's adult reader's card for Huddersfield's brilliant public library and you have the crucial elements necessary for a lifelong love of literature. Our house wasn't absolutely festooned with books but, among them, we had Ulysses, plenty of first edition Ian Flemings and Arnold Silcock's wonderful anthology, Verse and Worse. I arrived three years after my sister Lorraine, who is a very talented artist and graphic designer. ![]() In fact, it was his passion and he had some success, notably with the great march 'Simoraine'. He also played and composed brass band music. My mother, now retired, was a nurse (she is now a tireless seamstress and maker of soft toys and quilts) and my father built gear boxes for David Brown tractors. I was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, to an Irish mother and a Yorkshire father. ![]()
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