An Unanchored Heart - Tapa dura

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Knight Bruce was born in 1956 of Irish and Scottish parents at the Poltimore stately nursing home in Devon, which burned down shortly afterwards. His mother left home when he was one, leaving him in a hedgerow with a tractor driver, to pursue a television career. He was then brought up on his family farm by a succession of farm workers and au pairs, the latter of whom, one neighbour remarked, “Did more than the hoovering for his father.” Twenty years ago, on his father’s death, he returned to take on the farm of his childhood, a couple of derelict cottages and inherited the remaining Finnish au pair who, often ‘with drink’, he soon found offering his family silver to the postman for favours. But years behind a Fleet Street typewriter had barely prepared him for the task ahead and the abandonment of the hopes and memories he left behind.