Pikey Joe
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...the two men laughed in the easy way Joe had just laughted with Brit.They talked with no inhibitions, comfortable, relaxed with brotherhood of spirit. The plans whose seed Britannia had sown had rooted and the ideas spread between these two young men enriched by good bitter beer and a fug of tobbacco smoke. Joe puished his bike home.
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The central charecter had been traumatised by a rapid descent from riches to rags and being of Romany stock was branded 'Pikey Joe'. The narrative unfolds as the subject's troop shiparrives at Tilbury Docks. War experience had broadened his mind and he embarks on a triangle of relationships with his Grandmother a gypsy and a former SOE officer married to an Eastern European Romany. The triangle develops nthrough his marriage and there is an explosion of business and civic responsibility and brotherhood.
About the Author
Mike Harris has been a farmer and a publican as well as working in finance and politics. He has a passion for people, especially for those whose pieces do not fit into life's jigsaw. Such a person is the hero of this 63 year old grandfather's first novel.