A Foreign Country

I have to peer closely. Is that really us?

Siege of Venice?

Wrong town but a dance that brought the house down

Meeting the Dame

A chance encounter with David Bowie when I was fourteen.

Summer, 79

Selling ice-creams in the south of France? Or sweeping the streets of London?

Du Cane, London — January 2015

I’m with Dad in in the hospital where I was born and he is dying. I ask, “How did you get mum here from…

Last Word

An unexpected early morning phone call — never good.

Guangzhou — September 15 2003

Twenty years ago today I met my daughter for the first time. Not in the delivery room — she was already…

Welcome, Stranger

My father was hospitable to a fault

My sister, Jacqui

Clacton, Essex — July 24, 1973

I awake to seem my parents standing…

What happened to Mum?

Part One

A ghostly presence