father's day; Poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis died when his daughter, Tamasin, was a teenager.

Byline: Tamasin Day-lewis

_The past is a foreign country," L. P. Hartley wrote at the beginning of his great novel, The Go-Between. And that is what strikes me each time I look at this photograph of my father, the man I knew in some ways so well, in other ways not at all, for he had already lived the major part of his life before I was a gleam in his eye and his past was something I would only hear about in the edited-down, romantic way that parents have of telling you about their childhood. Like his early memory of being a young boy in turn-of-the-century Ireland on a bus in Dublin with his aunt Knos. "How to develop a beautiful bust," the advertisement ran in ...