Our Hearts Hang from the Lemon Trees

ays sat closest to my grandmother and it was clear that she was the favourite. The impenetrable logic of

All childhoods come to an end, and all families do too.

All childhoods come to an end, and all families do too.

ul dinners, her fabulous jewellery. Few came in for such praise; only her other friend, Madame la Duchesse, came in for more. But it didn’t stop the inevitable judgment being slipped in, as to whether the person had ‘pots of money’ and beautiful things ‘en pagaille’, or ‘not