The author, Alan Charles Harrison, has written six books over a three-year period from the age of seventy to eighty years. He has been an artist and musician all his life. Family life and his children were at the heart of his hobbies. Beginning an apprenticeship at British Rail and working as a craftsman over forty years was foremost in bringing up his family. His artistic life and musical career spans over sixty years. Even at present age of eighty-one, he is still active with a singing partner as a duo entertaining. He had a dormant period when his wife died on his seventieth birthday. This went on for five years. His singing partner eventually lit the spark that invigorated his musical and artistic life. It was during this period from his seventy-seventh year to his eightieth that his paint brush changed to the pen, finding a way to forward his creation so he turned to Austin Macauley.