Enough – Scenes from Childhood
Stephen Hough Faber 253pp (hb) £18.99
When Stephen Hough was at school, creative writing was his favourite subject. ‘I loved the way I could express my inner life fearlessly; the smoulder of hidden homosexuality … a desire to shock, and the irresistibility of showing off.’ That’s almost the manifesto for the British pianist’s childhood memoir, which traces his journey from the Wirral to Carnegie Hall.
Hough was no paragon of practice virtue growing up. Instead, he remembers
