Striking Out: A Memoir by Robert Matthews

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Coming up to London with her domineering mother-in-law she wishes more than anything to conceal her past and to navigate London Society as a silent companion. Bognor Regis gets a lot of stick these days. But as this book delights in telling us, there was a time when the town was felt even more respectable than Chichester. While much of Bognor Regis may be unrecognisable to the modern eye, there are some incredibly well-preserved features detailed, notably Hotham Park House and The Alexandra Pub in London Road, which dated back to the s.

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It may not be destined to become a best-seller, but for those who know the area, this book will certainly evoke fond memories. His new autobiography Striking Out only covers a five year period but is an incredible story and thoroughly absorbing. It starts in , when Robert had just finished his boarding school education in the Himalayas and was desperate to leave Pakistan to head for England, but that always looked as though it was an impossible dream.

Fate intervened, though in the hated form of his mother's lover, a colonel in the British Army, who gave him good cause to strike senseless one day. He won talent competitions, fronted a well-known big band, had a screen test for the part of Romeo in the movies and developed a close friendship with Barbara Andrews and her daughter, the famous Julie. Helen Christmas is a West Sussex-based author. Same Face Different Place , is the first in a series of dark and fast-paced thrillers.

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