Once Upon A Thatcher
Time.
People have asked me how long have I
been writing and what motivated me to start. Well it goes back about twenty
years now. I hated the Thatcher years and, as I saw it, the negative and illusionary
philosophies that went with it. So I set out to write a novel highlighting all
this.
It took me about 10 years writing in my lunchtimes,
under the working title, The Innocent Legatee. A Financial thriller set in, and
just after, the Thatcher years. A young man inherits shares in a vast national
trading company and learning about the attitudes and values of their trading principles.
But piece by piece he uncovers the grubby secrets of its founder, that the
company is founded on criminality and drugs running. Just in time he also comes
to defy all these unpleasant principles and confront those who perpetuate them.
Subsequently my published novels have
been historical fiction, but this original manuscript has been gathering dust
unpublished and unread. So last year I set about rewriting the story under the new
title Once Upon A Thatcher Time. I have
also changed it from the third person narrative to a first person narrative.
The death of Mr.T. has
motivated me to publish it direct to kindle/other E-reader formats, (no plans
at this time to publish in paper form.)
If you want to read it, go
to Smashwords.com. Smashwords is a multi e-reader platform;
it will give you a choice of reading devices. Don't
worry if you do not have kindle/e-reader, it can be read on desktop, laptop or
tablet computers. Smashwords will tell you how to do it,
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