The Learning Curves - Softcover

Grainger, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467934798 ISBN 13: 9781467934794

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Divided from his father and frozen out of his home in Ireland by his new stepmother, sixteen year old Jimmy O’Callaghan runs away resolving never to return. With no one to guide and support him, he finds himself with little option but to learn about life and love as best he can. He’s aided in his quest for enlightenment, success and happiness, by an unlikely collection of worldly people, the sort of people he would never have encountered, let alone befriend, at home in Templederry. Starting off with the few pounds he’d stolen from the till in his father’s pub the night before he left, and with little appreciation of how big a risk he was taking, he has only his personality and determination to make sure nothing is ever beyond his reach.This book is the first of The Templederry Trilogy, and is partly set in the rural Irish town of Templederry, County Tipperary. It is followed by Father Unknown and The Legacy

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About the Author

Alan Grainger is an Englishman who emigrated to Ireland at the time when everyone else seemed to be going the other way. He got seduced by the lifestyle, married an Irish woman and never went back. They have three children and seven grandchildren. Since retiring, other than when he s watching rugby or cricket, he has been travelling, painting and writing. His travels have taken him all over the world, provided him with much of the background material that features in his books, and allowed him to choose authentic sets against which he can tell his stories. They should also have inspired him to paint great landscapes but, for reasons not obvious to him, his paintings almost always turn out of be pictures of stones! He started writing after a trip to the head waters of the Amazon, during which he and his wife lived for a week in a hut in a remote part of the rain forest. You should write a book about it. his friends said when he came back, so he did. It s entitled The Tree that Walked . This was followed by: The Klondike Chest, a spoof biographical story of the author s grandfather s part in the last Great Gold Rush; It s Only Me, the author s own autobiography and The Rumstick Book of children s fairy stories and comic poems. After these came a trilogy of three novels: the first, The Learning Curves, is a rags to riches story; the second, Father Unknown, concerns the hunt by an adoptee for his natural parents; and the third, The Legacy, follows the search made by a brother and sister for a valuable unclaimed estate to which they have been told they may have rights. Some characters and a country town in Tipperary link the books. His latest novel, Blood On The Stones, is story of two boys who, having been brought up as brothers fall out over a woman, carve out a life in Secret Intelligence Services and eventually come together again to foil a plot to ignite a new Middle Eastern war.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1467934798
• ISBN 13: 9781467934794
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 497