David G Bailey

Gebundenes Buch

Them Feltwell Boys

Beschreibung

If women are so much trouble, Ray, why do you always want more than one? Parallel narratives of a schoolboy's developing first love affair and his career and marriage unravelling 25 years later eventually converge at a school reunion. Ray Roden is a Fenland schoolboy in trouble with teachers and friends as well as women after his boys' grammar merges with the girls' high. He has already met Tina: that girl would give me some of the best moments of my life. And the worst. Ray Roden is an insurance executive travelling the Caribbean in trouble with his job, his wife (one of them Roper girls), his children - and still women: this last ten days I've been kicked out of their beds by my wife, my girlfriend and a ... another one. And then there is Hurricane Martin, 'storm of the century', heading straight for his home in Puerto Rico. Alongside humorous scenes in Ray's unenlightened development from schoolboy clumsiness to mid-life crisis mismanagement are grimmer adult ones including adultery, alcohol abuse, physical and sexual assault. Will he emerge from his school reunion with more than one, one, 'the one' or no woman at all? Visit www.davidgbailey.com and author Facebook page at bit.ly/D-G-B

Autor

DAVID G BAILEY's debut publication in 2021 was 'Seventeen', a football fantasy adventure novel aimed at and beyond young adults. 'Them Roper Girls' (2022) returned to a world more recognisably our own, tracing in their own voices the lives of four sisters over more than sixty years from their 1950s childhood. A husband of a Roper sister takes centre stage in 'Them Feltwell Boys' (2023). With the same gritty realism and sometimes dark humour found in its predecessor, this follows Ray Roden's crude attempts at teenage love in counterpoint to his cynical womanising as an adult. 'The Sunny Side of the House' (2024) is a first venture into non-fiction in another projected series, 'When Life Gives You Strawberries - Memories of a Fenland Boy'. The origin story of 'Seventeen' appears within the clear-eyed narrative of a 1960s boyhood in East Anglia, where both David's contemporary novels are partly set. He currently lives in the Midlands.To read more of and about David's work, including a quarterly newsletter and new content daily comprising extracts from diaries and other writing over more than fifty years, visit his website www.davidgbailey.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Silverwood Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781800422568
• ISBN-10: 1800422563
• Artikelnr.: 68411254