Tinker (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781783826827)

ISBN: 978-1-78382-6841

Published: 2023

Pages: 56

Key Themes: Mental Health, Depression, Bipolar, Manic Depression

Description

This book is a personal perspective of life in the world now. It covers politics, the war in Ukraine, personalities and politicians, disasters, successes, and what I do in my own life as a disabled man. In short it covers everything in 2023 that concerns me.

About the Author

Andrew Aldred went to a grammar school and started his working life in the army at the age of sixteen. When he left the army at twenty, he had substantial mental difficulties, but he passed some A levels, an NVQ in business administration and an HND in computer studies before his mental illness got too much for him and he committed a crime, stabbing his father with a kitchen knife in 1997. He went to prison and then to mental hospital where he started writing poetry. He has since written twelve books and worked as a warehouseman, a mental health support worker, and he has taught creative writing. He got married in 2011 and divorced in 2016, and still has a loving relationship with his ex-wife who he cares for at present. His hobbies include gardening, DIY, and writing.