David G. Cox, author of the brilliant Pearls for Tears, has appeared in the Lancashire & North West Magazine.

This is the story of a shy young man who finds it difficult when it comes to meeting girls. When by chance he meets a girl while visiting a friend, they fall in love and marry and set out on life's journey, enjoying a wonderful life together. His new wife is a career woman who soon rises to the top of her chosen profession; the young man takes a little longer but finally finds his niche and enjoys a career in the world of computing. But as luck would have it, he is made redundant at an early age. Unable to find new employment his wife suggests that her husband takes the opportunity to take up writing; something he had always wanted to do since his school days. Through hard work he is successful in his new career; but fate soon steps in to shatter his world; life was going to be very different for him.