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College at Marlborough.

The family moves to London: on the Underground, used books and Sunday evensong.

College at Oxford.

A childhood in Cornwall...

First love in primary school, a bullied childhood, an early attempt at poetry...

Now, Betjemann has to confront his father, for he is determined to be a poet and not continue the family's antiques business. Nevertheless and of course, he is left with a sense of guilt, as he remembers the enterprise his father built.