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CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE

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by John Mortimer

The Sloane Square Wolf Cubs. I am in the front row on the left

  Duelling with The Times music critic

  Turville Heath when my father built it

  Doing battle in the Probate Court

  My father, when he could see, ready to do battle in the Divorce Court

  About to be deposed in the prep school production of Richard II

  One-man band

  Leaving Harrow

  At Oxford, simulated study of law

  Wedding group, 1949

  Having caught Arthur Jeffries’ gondola

  An extended family, 1958: Madelon stands next to me; sitting from left to right: Caroline, Penelope, Jeremy, Sally and Julia; Deborah is lying on the floor

  ‘Into the New Wave as the tube doors were closing.’ Back row, left to right: Arnold Wesker, Erol John, Bernard Kops and David Campton; front row, left to right: N. F. Simpson, Harold Pinter, Ann Jellicoe and me

  Jeremy as a Roman soldier in discussion with my father

  Reading aloud, stories of cruelty, adultery and wilful neglect to maintain

  Keeping down the mutiny in the garden

  In my ‘barrister’s set’

  An encounter with Rumpole

  Turville Heath today

  Working at Turville Heath today with my daughter Emily – ‘years of unlooked-for happiness’

 

 

 


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