Book Description

Here is a set of tales that are as refreshing as they are revealing. They begin in an ancient, blizzard-torn farmhouse in England's West Country at the height of the Second World War, and they end 60 years later beside an Aboriginal campfire in the Northern Territory of Australia. These 22 tales take us on an intimate journey through the life of an ordinary individual. Yet the talented style of their telling, with their numerous connecting threads of pathos, serendipity, music, adventure, religious curiosity, comedy, horses and high drama, draws the reader onwards inexorably and irrisistably. In this, his first book, Alistair Brooks provides us with an absorbing and notable autobiographical achievement. For his is a broad and colourful canvas portraying his very personal voyage of self-discovery, and the influences and opportunities that have wrought the many changes in his life. The tales leave one with the feeling his life has been everything but ordinary, and that he has enjoyed his living of it immensely. A rare claim these days. Compelling reading!