The Awesome Lives of Tommy Twicer - Juke, Steve
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The Awesome Lives of Tommy Twicer is my account of a secret that my bampy told must never be told except in time of dire emergency. Now is the time. I grew up in South East Wales in Penmaen near Oakdale in the Sirhowy Valley. Oakdale is a model village and it holds the most incredible secret that was wiped from the memory of all but a selected few. I am the latest of those few but now the secret must be revealed to maintain the integrity of a secret magical outpost named Abercwmzoo deep in the heart of the Sirhowy Valley from further development by Caerphilly County Borough Council. The story…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Awesome Lives of Tommy Twicer is my account of a secret that my bampy told must never be told except in time of dire emergency. Now is the time. I grew up in South East Wales in Penmaen near Oakdale in the Sirhowy Valley. Oakdale is a model village and it holds the most incredible secret that was wiped from the memory of all but a selected few. I am the latest of those few but now the secret must be revealed to maintain the integrity of a secret magical outpost named Abercwmzoo deep in the heart of the Sirhowy Valley from further development by Caerphilly County Borough Council. The story revolves around the amazing exploits of a very special young man who was born in Tuchola, Poland, on the stroke of midnight on December 31st, 1900. He was born Tomas Tomaschevsky, a farm boy who had a dream. In 1914, World War One broke out and he left the family farm to make his fortune in Moscow but fate took him to St Petersburg and involvement in the Russian Revolution. He fled to Wales in fear of his and his sweetheart's lives with the help of some heroic characters and makes his home in Oakdale where he assumes the name of Thomas Thomas. This is the first part of his awesome life in Poland and Russia up to his arrival in Wales. Please enjoy it and help save Abercwmzoo and preserve the beauty of the Sirhowy valley.
Autorenporträt
Steve Juke was born in the 1950s to a Polish father and Welsh mother, He grew up in the model village of Oakdale in the Sirhowy Valley in South Wales. He is now a grandfather and has three children and six grandchildren plus three step grandchildren. He was a policeman for thirty years before trying his hand at being a driving instructor when times were tight and gave that up despite a good success rate. He then took up writing the stories he used to tell his children as bed time stories and started on Tales from Abercwmzoo but as he wanted a start to show how Abercwmzoo came to exist in the Sirhowy Valley it changed from a children's story and became The Awesome Lives of Tommy Twicer incorporating his father's birth place Tuchola in Poland and his family's home Oakdale.