Emily Atack

They were very much... My parents were very set on raising us as kind of normally as possible.

I hung around with, like, lads in puffer jackets that all smoked weed in their cars, you know.

It was like, you know, like People Just Do Nothing, the show, the amazing show.

It was like that.

Like, I literally grew up... So I was kind of known to them, my friends like that, as the posh girl.

So then...

As I kind of grew up and left school and started working, I actually realised I wasn't the posh girl at all.

Having pals, no matter what background they came from, I just genuinely didn't care about what background they were from.

So, yeah, I grew up in a household where class didn't matter.

Your background didn't matter.

Well, I'm sure he's the one that goes around bragging that he's my cousin, I'm sure.

But yeah, no, he was very much a part of my childhood.

He's a lovely man and he's a family man.

And he was so the relation is he's first cousins with my grandma, Betty, who's not with us anymore.

But he very much and he writes about my grandma in all his books and every opportunity he gets, he talks about my grandma because she was such and my granddad.

because they were such key figures in his life when he lost his mum really young.

So he was very, yeah, he was very much a part of my mum's childhood on Mount Road, in that mad house.

Oh my God, so many memories in that house.

The back door was always open, you know, people would be coming and going all the time.

And yeah, so my mum grew up in Beatles mania and it was, she said it was just the most insane thing.