'Robert was gentle, clever, original. I was small but fierce.' To mark the centenary of the late P D James, we present the crime writer’s memoir, unseen since 1975, of her first true love 👇
His name was Robert, we were both aged 10, the place was the playground of the British School, Ludlow, and the first gift of love was a hopscotch stone. And if all this sounds unbearably jejune you should have known that 1920s playground. No adult establishment was so tradition-bound, so insensitively cruel, so hierarchical.
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