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Harbouri, Petrie

Petrie Harbouri settled in Greece immediately after leaving Newnham and is both a translator and the author of three novels, Graffiti, Our Lady of the Serpents and The Brothers Carburi.

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Great-aunts

Petrie Harbouri on the Maud Higham

My great-aunt Maud was a maiden lady. Young men were in short supply when she grew up, unconscionable numbers of them having been killed in the First World War. My grandmother hinted indeed that there had once been a curate vaguely in the offing; if so, nothing came of it and he offed rather than offered. I have a feeling that Maud was earmarked by her mother as the daughter who would stay at home and care for her parents, and to this end was over-protected and discouraged from any adult autonomy.

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