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Where's
Sailor Jack?
John
Uttley
Publication Date: April 15, 2015
ASIN: B00W851QLM
Print Length: 324 pages
Book Description:
A
family saga that takes in three generations of two families and all the
struggles, tribulations and fireworks that you would expect as well as plenty
you wouldn’t. Where’s Sailor Jack is the story of Bob Swarbrick’s journey from
Northern-grammar-school-boy to business magnate through the break up of his marriage,
the arrival of a new lover and an unhurried, consistent search for meaning in
his life.
Bob and Richard are grammar
school boys ‘done good’. Starting life in similar working class homes they have
progressively climbed the ladder until they are able to both sit comfortably as
champions of industry, and look back on their achievements and failures with
the keen Northern wit that never left them, even after years of exile life in
the south.
As they reflect on their lives,
loves and business decisions both try to find an explanation to fit their
lives: Bob seeks purpose, Richard meaning. While soul-searching, the reader is
witness to an exemplary part of British history - from their childhoods in post
war Northern England to the boom years in a prospering South (before survivors
guilt starts to bite in their latter years and they wonder just how their
opportunities would have worked out if they were born a few decades later).
The book covers and takes a
unique look at romance, religion, business sense and social mobility but does
so with wry tongue in its cheek whilst looking for a laugh, not a deep and
meaningful conversation.
About
the Author:
John Uttley was born in
Lancashire just as the war was ending. Grammar school educated there, he read
Physics at Oxford before embarking on a long career with the CEGB and National
Grid Group. He was Finance Director at the time of the miners' strike, the
Sizewell Inquiry and privatisation, receiving an OBE in 1991. Shortly
afterwards, he suffered his fifteen minutes of fame when he publicly gave a
dividend to charity in the middle of the fat cat furore. More recently, he has
taken an external London degree in Divinity while acting as chairman of
numerous smaller companies, both UK and US based. This is his first novel. He
is married to Janet, living just north of London with three grown children and
dog.
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