THE AUTHOR'S FRIEND
by MICHAEL PALIN aged 8. The Author's friend was born in Orpington, Kent in 1937. At the age of five she attended the Orpington School for Girls and in 1948, at the age of eleven went onto Swanley Girls High School, near Orpington. She left school at the age of eighteen, and in 1964, became the third youngest woman secretary of the Orpington Tennis Club. In addition to tennis she also enjoys moderately long walks in the country and she has read many light novels. She is married to an Orpington man, the only survivor of the gang which slew Joey Gallo outside a Manhattan restaurant in 1972. |