Holden, Jim

Cay Towner was born the fifth of six children, 'A jolly good way to have your corners knocked off and not grow up with any airs and pretensions!' she comments. She remembers being told by her English teacher, at the age of twelve, that she had 'a flair for the subject' and with such encouragement, she went on from Portsmouth High School to read English Literature at Queen Mary and Westfield College (London) where her own son is now a student. Cay spent her early adult life wandering around various occupations from accounts work, to donning the overall of a fish wife at Billingsgate Market, whe...