Jem Clarke is in his very, very early fifties, is five foot zero inches tall and has never left the family home in Cleethorpes, which he shares with his parents…
Mother had noticed my fugue state.
She was not wrong. It’s because I’ve outgrown my remaining trouser waists. So I flop around in a tartan dressing gown, sighing a lot.
For my brief sorties to the shops, she lends me her own
