Not For The Likes of Us

A piece wrote this for the Big Issue last week

When I was eight or so I casually told my family, as children do, that I had decided how I would like to spend my life - writing books. Though the whole family was present for this announcement the only response I can remember, and I remember it word for word, was my grandad’s. He said “That’s not for the likes of us, la,” as frank and clear as that, an…