Here Lies by Eric Ambler

Author:Eric Ambler [Ambler, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-95010-9
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

1–Myself, 1909. The solicitous hand in the lower left of the picture is my mother’s. To my mind, this portrait of the child gives clear warning of things to come later in the man—a certain surliness of disposition and a tendency to put on weight.

2 & 3–My father and mother at about the time of their marriage in 1906. He was born in Lancashire, the eldest son of a printer’s proof-reader and a mill-girl. He left school at the age of twelve to earn his living and so was mainly self-educated, though a friendly choir-master fostered his considerable musical talent and made him a proficient organist who could expect fees for playing. My mother he met when his family moved to London. Her father was a master cabinet-maker and her mother a lawyer’s daughter. She was better educated than my father, though I don’t think that either of them ever became aware of the fact. Their great bonds were music and the making of laughter. They were both stage-struck.

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