Everything I Have Always Forgotten is an idiosyncratic memoir of a Swallows and Amazons-style childhood in north Wales in the 1940s and 50s. Owain Hughes grew up in the family’s large but dilapidated house, son of the novelist Richard Hughes – whose circle included Bertrand Russell and Mick Jagger, aristocrats and spies – and the artist Frances Bazley, a member of the Howard family which includes the Dukes of Norfolk. Under their ‘benign neglect’, Owain’s adventures include, aged just 12, a three-day hike through Snowdonia with a friend that ended up with the pair marooned for two weeks on Bardsley Island off the north Welsh coast. There are also trips to the Dyfi Estuary and Clough Williams-Ellis’s folly village of Portmeirion. The stories that result perfectly capture a period of post-war British life that looks back to Brideshead Revisited but also forward to kitchen-sink drama and angry young men. inpressbooks.co.uk/everything-i-have-always-forgotten/
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:53:57 +0000
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