Vashti Bunyan’s Lookaftering is only her second album, but she was 60 when it was released

Vashti Bunyan released Lookaftering in 2005 a new reissue marks 20 years of this sublime record.

It is at once an ode to her children a third child, born 13 years later , is the subject of the next verse.

Bunyan ’s re-emergence on the music scene in her sixth decade is far from the only remarkable thing about the songwriter's life.

Bunyan ’s voice, still audibly young but with an endearing roughness to it, is at odds with her circus-like surrounds.

She fell in with Robert Lewis , an art student she met hitchhiking his way through Suffolk .

The pair were “swept up into this great gale of ideas for a future of like-minded people going to live in a remote and northerly part of the United Kingdom ”.

Vashti Bunyan’s “ Lookaftering Expanded Edition ” is out on 7 February via FatCat Records .

In 2006 , Bunyan agreed for her song “Diamond Day” to be used in a T-Mobile advert.

She has enjoyed a late-life renaissance, touring and releasing music, as well as her memoir.