Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

Speaking up

Jeremy Clarke reports on his Low Life

issue 15 May 2010

My boy and I have fallen out. It happened like this. He decided to drive his newborn son, his partner and his partner’s three kids up to the Outer Hebrides, where his partner’s mother lives. The mother wanted to see the baby, and my boy and his partner were keen for her to see him.

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