Diary of a North London Lad
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The Beatles, Cliff and the Shadows, the Jaguar E-type, the miniskirt, England winning the World Cup, touring Austria and Germany with a renaissance comedy, earning a standing ovation, playing ‘Alfie’ – the swinging sixties were intoxicating to those of us with an appetite for music, the theatre, the fairer sex, smoking, drinking, the odd spliff now and again – but not necessarily in that order.
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About the Book
The book is the story of a young man, born just after the outbreak of world war two. It charts his growing up in North London in the forties and fifties, his diving enthusiastically into the swinging sixties, and his marriage, fatherhood and career in the seventies. Along the way, we meet all sorts of characters, more girls that you could shake a stick at, get immersed in amateur film-making, acting (in 'Alfie', amongst other things) and directing (a world premiere, amongst other things) in the amateur theatre, and working for a Hollywood film star. After many jobs in North London and the West End, he becomes a Sales Representative, and, with the help of one or two young ladies, eventually becomes a company director. The book ends at the beginning of the eighties, with our hero, not for the first time, at a crossroads . . .
About the Author
The author is now seventy one, and has slowed down dramatically from the exertions of his youth. He married for the second time in 1981, and moved to Berkshire. His second daughter, Serena, was born in 1983, and his third daughter, Lucinda, was born in 1988. He now lives in leafy Redhill, in Surrey, with his second wife. This is his first book.