There were five of us children and we lived in an old, rather dilapidated house situated on the north coast of Antrim with a view of Rathlin Island All around the house were fields, streams, the hills and the sea - 'Our kingdom' - we called it - and we were free to roam it where we willed We made our own games and peopled our own imaginations, ably and liberally augmented by Father's tall tales The author describes a happy childhood in the 1920s