“I am the third oldest, and I think it would have been a good idea if I was the youngest, too. I am not quite sure why my mom and dad wanted to have more children after me.”
“Saturdays I put on my boots to go wading down the River Pinn singing songs like: Olly Jonathan Curly and Carrot past garden trees, the backs of shops, building sites scaffolds and timber, park-keepers’ huts the disused railway lines and the new state the garage junk heap.”
“Sometimes she wished her father had started her on the electric guitar. Or at the very least, singing lessons. What was she supposed to do with an ability to play the piano?”