Born in India in 1937, Michael Foss's childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britain under threat, and the brightly lit and teeming vitality of wartime India. Here, beautifully evoked, is a childhood spent amongst grudging and unloving English relations; a sufferance of cruelly h...
We had managed with less – my brother and I – in time of war. What were the rites appropriate to this new situation, this sudden addition of an extra to our settled group? What were the uses of a father? I looked at the two of them together – my parents. Though there was nothing wrong with them, ...