WOOLLYBACK (Novel 187 pages)

Woollyback paints a picture of division and prejudice between church and chapel in the town Winsford, Cheshire, between the communities of Over and Wharton during the pre-war generation, and in the post-war generation between native Woollybacks and incoming Scousers from Liverpool who flood in, changing everything.  Add to that the bad blood between those forever divided by the 11-Plus Examination into a striped-blazer Grammar School elite and secondary modern failures and the situation, seen through the eyes of Joe, a working class boy who passes the exam, seems hopeless.  The story is told as a thread running through the moving deathbed reconciliation between the adult Joe and his salt miner father. In spite of a mutual yearning for love and respect, their relationship has been marred by a lifetime of painful misunderstandings and barriers built up on both sides. At last, each is able to set the record straight - but can Joe bear the terrible burden that his dying father unwittingly places upon his shoulders?

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