They wanted me to be like Marianne Faithfull not Kathy Burke, writes Glyn Brown
Having done a secretarial course and two years on reception in a tiling factory, I’d just gone back to further education to get my A-levels. Clutching those, I left home – a run-down coastal bungalow we’d moved to from north London, where the kitchen tap stuck out of a concrete wall and the only reading matter was the back of Cornflakes packets – for university.was very hunting and fishing, and my abiding memory will remain the fun boys from Eton and Marlborough had imitating my Cockney accent.
Like the gurning two-foot high glass clown they bought in Tenerife. “God knows how we got that through baggage control,” grinned Dad, with a wily wink. Could it be that no one in Spain wanted it to stay there? Duncan mocked my sister saying ‘Nan’, drawing it out offensively, when he himself said “Grandmother”; his dad was “Pa”.
Allegedly I was his muse, like Gauguin’s illiterate Tahitian girls or Baudelaire’s untameable mistress Jeanne Duval. When he discovered I was sub-editing on red-tops to subsidise my freelance broadsheet writing and pay the rent, he was sickened.
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