Born into an unconventional and artistic family, Daniel became a poet later in life. Charterhouse and Oxford educated, Daniel went into advertising after serving as an RAF pilot during the war, but became increasing disillusioned by consumerist 20th century culture. Eventually he retreated to Larkland, an 18th cottage in North Buckinghamshire, where he began to write in earnest, seeking to find meaning and a collective sense of soul through the medium of poetry. One of his most beautiful and elegiac poems Sea Change inspired, and provided the title for my best-selling memoir.

Born in Yorkshire and raised in Nottinghamshire, Margaret came from a working class background. A bright child, she excelled at grammar school and began her journalist career at the age of sixteen on the local paper. ‘Maggie Pycroft’ went on to have a stellar career which took her from newspapers in Sheffield and Manchester to the very top of Fleet Street, covering major stories such as the Aberfan disaster and the Munich Air crash, interviewing everyone from Noel Coward to Golda Meir and reporting from UN refugee camps in the Middle East. Later on, as a mother of two, Margaret’s career took off again and she wrote several best-selling nonfiction books, the most well known being The World’s Greatest Cranks and Crackpots.  

Sister to Daniel, Theresa grew up surrounded by creative people but struggled to find her own path - until July 1961, when, the morning after her 30th birthday dinner, Theresa fled the country to live with the artist Cristo Vlahopoulos on her beloved Corfu. It was at Cristo’s side that found her true calling and learnt her craft, capturing the landscape and minutiae of Corfuit life. Theresa, who became known as ‘the chronicler of Corfu’, died in December 2018 after 57 years on the island and left her an immense legacy of oil paintings, lino cuts, etchings and paintings now housed by the municipal and national galleries as well as a series of books. A major retrospective exhibition will open on the island in July 2020.