The author tells how football nearly cost her the nannying job on which her hilarious memoir of 80s literary London is basedHow did you get the job as nanny to the sons of Mary-Kay Wilmers [co-founder of the London Review of Books]?My sister Vic was working in a nursing home " I'd worked there too. I left school at 14. The old ladies took the Lady magazine. We'd look at the classifieds and fantasise. I thought: I'd l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AM on January 5, 2014