Early Days
Most of us are interested in other people – the pattern of their lives, the dramatis personae of their personal histories; and for many of us, what we grow up with is just our ‘normal’. It isn’t until we start to be aware of the lives of others around us that we can see our own lives in some kind of perspective. That’s certainly how it was for me: I got to the age of ten before it dawned on me that my home life was unusual. For a start, growing up in the sixties in middle-cla