ABSTRACT
I was born in 1941 during the Second World War. My father was away fighting in France and my mother, who lived in south London, had to travel out of London to give birth because of the danger of bombing. Consequently, I was born in Tunbridge Wells, in Pembury Hospital. I was only there for three weeks, however, and then we moved back to London where I spent much of my childhood. Although a full-term baby, I only weighed four and a half pounds and was always told I looked like a skinned rabbit when I was born. It seems that my mother had a difficult forceps delivery and the right side of my face was squashed in. I put my poor visuo-spatial and musical skills down to the fact that I sustained some right hemisphere damage at birth.
