A moving memoir from Mervyn Peake's daughter.

Clare Penate (nee Peake) was born on the island of Sark, but has lived in London all her life. She has worked as a bookseller, flower-seller, waitress, child-minder, nursery school teacher and maid. She has three children, one being the singer Jack Penate, and one grand-child. She reads, goes to the cinema, listens to music, and hand-makes patchwork quilts.