ALLISON PEARSON
As I was born in July I love summer. Actually, I was three weeks premature and jaundiced, so I spent my first days on Earth in an incubator under a heat-lamp. It must have set my internal thermometer for life, not to mention giving me a deeply misleading picture of the climate of my native South Wales. Basking in the rays of that lamp, baby Allison must have thought that she’d been delivered to a tropical paradise. Little did the innocent baby know that beyond the walls of
