Life

Born 1967 in Adelaide, South Australia.

Healthy and strong. An unfailingly cheerful baby who charmed everyone. The dazzling smile came early. Walked the day she turned ten months and showed signs of being left-handed by a year old. A reader by three and at four years old took charge of her baby sister born 1972.

The first big change was a long sea journey to Europe: her fifth birthday in Sweden. An English childhood: Cheltenham, Leicester and Rothley village.