The delinquent childhood of Raymond Briggs, genius storyteller

Written By Honor Teare

My piece in The Times about a new volume of two early stories by Raymond Briggs and the shaming incident which inspired them.

An Excerpt:

One day when Raymond Briggs was about 12 he was brought home to his parents in a police van. According to Briggs’s memoir of his family, Ethel & Ernest, he “was apprehended breaking and entering the golf club and stealing valuable billiard cues”. The police gave him a caution but threatened borstal next time. His mother was horrified and distraught.

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