“Leave the girl alone, she is just a little different,” said my father in response to my mother’s exasperation. I protect and treasure this memory, which reflects so poignantly how it felt growing up at Burton Pynsent
Such a glorious place. Before the constraints of attempted conformity closed in and family life became fractured and harrowing, my siblings and I ran wild, like privileged little savages.
I have drawn from personal and idiosyncratic recollections based on the first ten years of childhood in Somerset.
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