Seventy-Seven and Counting
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- ISBN 9781739323936
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2024
- Publisher: Hawkwood Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Back in the mid 20th century, Brian was born. There were probably many Brians born, but this one is still going, still active, still looking for love in places as far afield as The Philippines, Thailand and Crawley. Based on Facebook entries and haphazard emails, this is an attempt to document an unusual life based on wit, wisdom, energy, intelligence and chance. If you get nothing else from perusing this memoir, you might at least acknowledge that there are survival techniques for living a long life that don't involve pensions, mortgages, stable jobs and soul sapping routines - some of the time. The book is presented almost unedited to convey Brian's language, thought processes and gregarious nature. Asking him to edit it was like asking Mount Everest to shift over a couple of centimetres. It's insightful, amusing and unusual. It doesn't claim to be a new Samuel Pepys, but it does convey a rare sense of individuality in a world with systems often designed to mould us against our natures.
Brian's life has encompassed surviving often violent siblings, an equally violent father, abuse of pone kind or another, hard manual work, running an antiques shop in Spain, a gay guest house in Blackpool, a bookshop in Fulham, a job at the biggest computer company in the UK and heaven knows what else. Whenever I speak with him, I pick up new pieces of information. He documents much through Facebook in his normal, idiosyncratic way. Brian is currently living in Latvia, but may not be by the time I finish this sentence...
