The Beatles Generation - Softcover

Morton, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1456780883 ISBN 13: 9781456780883

Publisher: AuthorHouse Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The Beatles Generation are the post-war baby boomers whose secondary education coincided with the rise of the Fab Four, and the widespread cultural changes that ran in parallel throughout the 1960s. Colin Anscombe is one of that generation; his recurring dreams of schooldays and his infatuation with classmate Katy Simmons, have played on his mind for many years. Through the opportunities provided by social networking and the Internet, Colin has made contact with a number of his old classmates and when the reader joins him, he is looking forward to meeting a small group of them for a reunion later in the day. Born and bred New Zealander, Brian Jacko Jackson, attended the same school as Colin for a brief period during the mid-1960s, and by coincidence finds himself back in England for the first time in nearly forty years. He is en-route to meet up with Colin in the town where they both lived as boys, before they travel to see former classmate Ian Harrison who is hosting the reunion. As the day unfolds the narrative switches between the 1960s and the early twenty first century as the group discuss their memories from those schooldays and the intervening years. All of the group have their own stories; whether they choose to share them or not is largely down to the flow of conversation. Jacko in particular carries a heavy weight and there is an air of mystery that shrouds him; never revealing much and invariably diverting attention away from himself by spinning a yarn or two. For the group, the order of the day is nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Morton was born in Hampstead, England in 1951 and, apart from a three year stay in New Zealand in the late 1980s, has lived in Sussex for all of his adult life. He worked in the IT industry for over forty years, which didn't give much scope for writing apart from technical journals and in-house magazines. Drawing on his own experiences of school during the 1960s, tracking down classmates via the Internet some 35 years later, and his time spent in New Zealand, he set about realising an ambition to prove to himself that everybody has a book inside them.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1456780883
• ISBN 13: 9781456780883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364