I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.
“I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.”
“I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.”