On my third Barbara Trapido

Barbara Trapido, The Travelling Hornplayer - When you are young enough...you still, perhaps, have options about the kind of person you will become. I became, because of her dying, a more earnest, more straight-faced, more directed person. It may be that I became a bit of a bore. - - Throughout our childhoods Lydia and I distrusted any prize-winning book because we knew it would be worthy; and for worthy, we read boring. - - Downstairs I find the family large and gruesome. Ironically, it is just like the family I dreamed up for myself in childhood - ranks of...