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At 37 Crawford Road in Camberwell, London. My mother had separated from my father and we had nothing, but I remember roast potatoes, twopence in the gas meter and music. It was the only time in my life when I felt at home.
Before email was invented.
When I was 11 and we got Sky TV.
In the first lockdown. Obviously, there was terrible grief and sadness and fear around, but there was also this reclaiming for nature. I was constantly at my allotment with the big kids and my husband.
One great big artistic challenge.
Impatience and temper. Enough already!
Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.
After the war, when I was about nine, we were held up in our home. The robbers grabbed my father and had a gun at his throat. It was terrifying. My mother got a wad of money and gave it to the people, and they ran away.
As someone who loved the ideals of American democracy and made my small contribution to it.
I don’t know about perfect, but a creamy scoop of green-tea ice cream comes fairly close.
Ann Patchett, Kathleen Turner, Toni Collette, Daniel Radcliffe, Mindy Kaling, Ray Mears
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