Harlequinade (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780957237247)

With a far-from-conventional background, Lindsay Pritchard is well qualified to write entertainingly and touchingly about the human condition. Brought up from a very early age in care in Staffordshire, he nevertheless succeeded in negotiating high school and, later, King's College, London University, where he graduated in Law. Bored by the prospect of a legal career he sidestepped respectable life for a while, working in a number of menial jobs for several years as a gravedigger, labourer, meat porter and crane driver whilst playing premier-level rugby union at weekends. However marriage, mortgage and children demanded a more regular lifestyle and income, so he forged a career in Human Resources, eventually becoming the HR Director for a major billion-pound international engineering company. Always considering himself "a writer in a suit, temporarily derailed by circumstances", the demands of a career, three children and another degree-a first in Psychology-did not permit the luxury of sitting at a keyboard waiting for the muse to come calling. Eventually, a downshift in 2011 at last afforded the opportunity to write. Harlequinade is his first book. Lindsay lives in Chester and is currently writing his next book of short stories. The author supports several charities but has chosen to donate 10 per cent of all royalties from this book to "Help For Heroes".