Apart from textbooks and school reading books, we didn't grow up with books - Mother viewed them as frippery, and said there was enough clutter and mess in a house full of six children without encouraging us to hoard even more. I went to the library with my oldest brother when I was about six, and he let me take out a book on his card. However, after spilling a dot of curry on one of the pages while reading at the dinner table, I was terrified I would be taken to jail for des