My younger sister, Judy Hillman, who has died aged 85 following a heart attack, was a journalist and polymath – and one-time Guardian reporter.
Born and brought up in Seaford, East Sussex, she was the daughter of Rex Hillman, a solicitor, and Beryl (nee Martin), a PE teacher. During the second world war Judy and I were evacuated to Ottawa in 1940. Enjoying the freedom of
Canada, we spent long summers in Quebec at a cabin in Larrimac, swimming in the Gatineau river with winters marked by skating, tobogganing and the odd sleigh ride.