“It’s true my mother has two photographs of me on her hall table. They are side-by-side. One of me at age 14, looking painfully thin. And another, taken a year ago, in which I’m photographed from below in a way that makes me look like Marlon Brando after a binge. Says Jocasta: ‘It’s her way of saying, ‘This is him when I looked after him; and here he is under the regime of that fat girlfriend of his.’”
