David Lewis

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would like to thank my family and friends for their encouragement, particularly my wife for her love, support and patience. Thanks especially to Kevin Westwood for his critique and comment and to the members of the Stafford u3a creative writing group for their support. They all helped give me the confidence to realise that writing a novel was possible.

Thanks to Julia Sutton who encouraged me to take the next steps in my writing journey and for the introduction to Next Chapter Publishing and Miika Hannila. Realising and holding my book is an achievement alongside any of those I have enjoyed so far.

I hope you enjoy the book, my debut novel, an escape from the realities of life

They watched as the students wandered past.