She had a self-confidence about her
that I never possessed. Even when
she was working in the garden,
dressed in overalls and covered in
mud, you could see how attractive
she was.
—I can only assume that my mother
broke more than a few hearts in her
day, but from the time I was born,
there were only two men in her life,
my father and my stepfather. Right
around the corner from my father’s
house in Yeoville, there was a
garage called Mighty Mechanics.
Our Volkswagen was always