I grew up in a small Yorkshire market town. Since then I have lived and worked in many different parts of England. For a number of years I was a Youth Hostel warden and then I worked in various jobs within the rural economy. To my amazement I won first prize in an international poetry competition and several collections of poems followed this success. Novel writing did not begin until I married Rosi and we formed a literary partnership.
When I was a young guy I walked everywhere. Coming back to my rented cottage from a visit to friends early one misty autumn evening I took a short cut across the fields. Back then, after the cereal harvest was over in England, the fields were often left as stubble through the winter months, the new crop not being sown until spring. This particular evening,
