It's with great excitement and a little trepidation that Dad and I have been approving book cover designs for his soon to be published memoir, A Long Way From Misery. There have been plenty of ups and downs, and highs and lows during the making of this book. This is one of the highs. A Long Way From Misery has been quite a journey. Twelve years in May since my dad first said he had a few tapes on which he'd recorded his adventures growing up, (usually at night after a rum and a reminisce). Twelve years since I offered to turn them into a book for him. That's a long time! It's the time it takes a child to go right the way through primary and secondary school. And a schooling it sure has been. I wish I knew then what I know now and maybe this book would have been out while Dad was still young enough and fit enough to be dragged around multiple book launches and signings. A Long Way From Misery; it took us a long time to get here. But the best thing is in a few weeks time he'll get to hold a copy in his hands, the culmination of years of work, a story of his own and there are none quite like it. It's his story, his life, his book, and at last the end is in sight ... or is it the beginning?
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