16 January 2023
My earliest reading memory
I must have been read, probably by my mother, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, and Kipling's rhythms must have got into my memory, because I remember looking at the story How the Camel Got His Hump and experiencing the words gradually matching the sounds in my mind. I was six, and on board ship to join my father, an RAF officer stationed in what was then Southern Rhodesia.
