The Independent - London, October 19th, 1997
Until I was 11 we lived in a village in Gloucestershire called Stinchcombe. The house, Piers Court, was square, grey stone and Georgian, with a pretty escutcheon over the front door and a much earlier rear part dating back to Charles II. The house was said to be haunted by a headless Cavalier, and I was very excited by that. My parents bought it just before the Second World War. Since my father was in the army and my mother was having babies all the time, she moved out and it was given over to a convent, which ran a school in it. When my parents returned to it after the war, it was severely w...
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