Mother's boy Jigsaw puzzles parks and allotments

parks and allotments

selected by the Times2 Crossword Editor John Grimshaw

celebrity and self-gratification

The relentless tempo of events defies belief

Mother's boy Jigsaw puzzles parks and allotmentsLaura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius. As an intensely private young man, Charles