Book Description
A loving family home in the mid-sixties destined for demolition is surrounded by the shattered remains of a once-thriving community and a derelict landscape filled with the sounds of excited children.
Here an inquisitive child finds his feet. Along the way he encounters a hostile water heater and succumbs to the temptation of Airfix paint, chewing gum and an open gate that leads to the domain of a snarling beast.
Harsh lessons are learnt, and a growing maturity tries to understand loss, upset and change.
The early seventies saw a new home filled with the entire contents of Bruce’s conveyor belt and a fifty-shades-of-orange lounge festooned in a teak forest.
Sunday evenings belonged to the two fighting cats trying to outsing Freddie Mercury whilst kid Jensen’s playlist fails to calm a hostile twin tub.
New mates lead to a meeting with a West Ham legend, Hamlet and the Wizard of Oz.
Never steal apples from an ex-cricketer, know your trigonometry before dancing with the devil dog, and nursery school looks are not tolerated in a sink-or-swim secondary school.
A shocking turn of events prompts a much darker chapter where he is abandoned in a frightening world occupied by a bully intent on smashing him into submission.
Somehow over time he finds the inner strength and courage to fight back, and ultimately redemption reveals itself via a pair of NHS glasses, facing off with King Richard and a cheese and onion cob.
An unlikely route to a role model and two family members who finally show him the way.
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