Terence Connor was born in Whitechapel and has always lived in London, apart from attendance at universities and periods working abroad in Spain (film extra English classes in a language school, and private tutor to a bullfighter) and in Ecuador (volunteer in a shanty town). He has studied at the universities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Kent and LSE, worked in social services departments and in a voluntary child care and adoption agency. More recently, he has obtained a masters in creative writing with distinction from Exeter University. This is his first novel.
Meet Harold, a young man who occupies a room in a bleak tenement in the edgy Blitz-damaged East End. Harold’s good humour and air of optimism belie the unfortunate circumstances which blighted his childhood, left him orphaned and shaped his view of the world. An intelligent, resourceful and amiabl...
