He was actually born the only child of a British Rail clerk and his wife, and raised in suburban North Harrow in North-West London, in ‘a two-bedroom, semi-detached bungalow’. Roger Deakin, who died in 2006, swam across Britain, via lakes, ponds and canals, writing about his experiences in the much-loved book Waterlogīarkham has stitched together a vivid but coherent sequence of carefully chosen excerpts from Deakin’s journals, letters and writings, as well as numerous reminiscences by friends and lovers, to give us a magical kind of post-mortem autobiography.Īlthough Deakin famously ended up living in a moated Elizabethan farmhouse in Suffolk, which makes him sound like the epitome of a posh, privileged boho, this is really just a measure of how cheap property used to be.
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