It is 1903. Thomas Edgar, a passionate collector of butterflies, is offered the chance of a lifetime: to travel to the Amazon as part of a scientific expedition. Hoping to find the mythical butterfly that will make his name and immortalise that of his wife, Sophie - for if he finds it, he will ca...
I see myself from the outside, a skinny kid with a pageboy haircut and crooked front teeth, a scattering of freckles, grinning widely at the camera. Charlie follows me around like a toy on a string. In another memory — or perhaps it is a movie — we ride our ponies bareback into the river, looks o...