Lobster and chips on the Suffolk coast proves life-affirming, and reminds me of my dear old mum
The Suffolk Sur-Mer, 152 High St, Aldeburgh IP15 5AQ (the-suffolk.co.uk). Bar snacks: £3-£8; starters £10-£14; mains £18- 60 (for the whole lobster); desserts £9. Wines from £26 a bottle
In 2001, my mother was diagnosed with what she would come to describe as “a touch” of breast cancer. Claire would later say that in just two weeks, she went from not having breast cancer – the blissful day before diagnosis – to not having breast cancer, courtesy of a double mastectomy. “I was very fond of my boobs,” she told me later, “and I do miss them, but it was the obvious solution.” She lived on for another nine years, and died of something else entirely.
