Published by APS Books April 2025
An emotional secret about true identity kept throughout a 1950s and 1960s childhood in a small Staffordshire coal mining community and explosively revealed on his 18th birthday. A true tale of tragedy, loss and salvation as a small boy grows up to face the changing world of the 1970s with its then still strangely repressive attitudes to difference – class, education and sexuality in particular.
Rich Foster was born in Landywood, a mining village near Cannock, Staffordshire in 1956. He started work on a local newspaper when he was 18 but his career as a reporter came to an end after 6 months. He later had a career in the civil service before qualifying as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives and working as a local government lawyer with local authorities in the Midlands. He later became the lead lawyer at Centro (the former West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive) and was a Senior Associate lawyer at law firm Pinsent Masons LLP prior to his retirement in 2020. Rich is now a resident of Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset. His interests include, politics, social history and Chicago blues music.
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