Linwood Barclay: My dad’s trailer park legacy

Crime novelist Linwood Barclay grew up at his parents’ caravan park. At 17, he became the head of his dysfunctional family when his father died and had to run the placeA typical day in 1972 began like this: It’s 6am and someone is banging on the door of the 60-ft mobile home I live in with my mother and 28-year-old brother. I’m 17 and for the last year, since my dad died of cancer at the age of 59, I’ve been more or less running the family business, a cottage resort and c