Jack Sheffield comes to Waterstones at intu Milton Keynes this week.
The popular author will be holding the official book launch for his 12th novel in the best-selling teacher series, called Changing Times.
Jack grew up in the tough environment of Gipton Estate, in North East Leeds.
After a job as a ‘pitch boy’, repairing roofs, he became a Corona Pop Man before going to St John’s College, York, and training to be a teacher.
In the late 70s and 80s, he was a headteacher of two schools in North Yorkshire before becoming Senior Lecturer in primary education at Bretton Hall near Wakefield.
It was at this time he began to record his many amusing stories of village life.
Jack now lives in this neck of the woods - close to Milton Keynes!
In Jack’s new book, Changing Times, for the residents of Ragley-on-the-Forest, the war is finally starting to feel like a distant memory.
Gone are the days of rationing and sacrifice, replaced with the joys of spin-dryers and Beatlemania. But Lily Feather can’t quite forget the events of the war and the years that followed.
Buried in her past remains a terrible secret from which she cannot escape. Can she keep her family together and learn to move on? Set in the same village as Jack’s first ten novels, we meet new and old faces from this little Yorkshire village but before the time of the beloved character Jack Sheffield...
Tomorrow's event (Thursday, July 25), will begin at 6pm.
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