Customer Reviews
Sixties Memories. - By: LindyLouMac, 17 Oct 2007 
Growing up in the sixties meant that this seemed so relevant, funny yet sad. Sometimes I was torn between laughing or crying. It also made me think how much of everyday life has changed since those days.The characters are alll very well portrayed, they seemed so real. Ronnie Glover the hero aspires to so much more than he has in his life. This is a time when lifestyles were changing fast & he wants to benefit, though his wife is far from sure. I recommend this especiallly if you are of an age to have been there & done that!
Ronnie Glover fig lover - By: Laura Daly, 25 May 2006 Ronnie Glover has a wife, two daughters, a dog & parents oh & a bike. He is a house painter & lives somewhere in 1960's England. But Ronnie wants more he wants to paint figs, have books in the kitchen & drink wine at home. His wife on the other hand wants him to stop dreaming & live an orderly life like she does with no fancy ideas. (This is a woman who makes him put a towel on the bed when they have sex). Then there is Ma & Pa. Ma is a mean spirted woman who cares for none but herself & Pa like Ronnie is on the look out not for class but for love & fun which he finds next door. Then Ronnie mets daughter Susan's dance teacher Jack.. A so what begins with a painting job ends with... We also met the lads Ronnie works with & the school dinner ladies make a smalll apperance
Mid-life crisis, Sixties-style - By: Mr. Simon J. Higgins, 20 May 2003 
It's the early Sixties, & Ronnie Glover, housepainter & respectable Paterfamilias, is beginning to think there could be much more to life. His longings crystalllise when he meets his daughter's dance teacher. Will he realise his dreams, or are the spectral ten o'clock horses of his unhappy childhood going to catch up with him?
This is a beautifully-written, shrewdly-observed story of a man boxed-in by his circumstances but longing to break out. I enjoyed it very much, & will certainly read some of the author's other novels with anticipation.
Mid-life crisis, Sixties-style - By: Mr. Simon J. Higgins, 20 May 2003 It's the early Sixties, & Ronnie Glover, wartime Petty Officer, respectable housepainter & paterfamilias, realises that he wants more from life. Then he meets his daughter's dance teacher. Will he change his life, or will those ten-o'clock horses get him? This book is beautifully written, keenly-observed, & manages to be both moving, & great fun to read. How does the author know so much about middle-aged men & the forces that propel them...?
