"Before my wife - my late wife - Susie got ill, she used to say that a tidy house created a force field - Susie's housekeeping was a way of surrounding her family. Her presence was everywhere - in the drifting scent of Givenchy from the bedroom, or rosemary from the kitchen, or that lemon-scented cleaning agent coming from the bathroom."
"So there we are, a father and two sons in a household without role models, males together in a home different from anything I'd known - an idyllic "Lost Boys"' world with a house full of children and as few rules as possible..."