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Peanut - John Cecil

Peanut

By: John Cecil

eBook | 12 January 2018 | Edition Number 1

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It is the summer of 1972. Elvis, John Lennon and Simon & Garfunkel are selling out at the Madison Square Gardens. Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka. The scandal that will bring the downfall of a US President, Watergate, hits the headlines and the world is shocked by the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. Behind the backdrop of this we follow John Caswell, a football mad 15 year old from the Midlands as he embarks on his final year at Kettering Grammar school. We suffer with him as he agonises over his O levels in the summer of 1973 culminating in mixed results and finds himself working in an office in a Builders Merchants with little idea of how his life is going to take off. Later that year John meets and becomes totally influenced by his Sister's boyfriend who is in the Merchant Navy. Convinced this is the life for him John then goes to the National Sea Training School in Gravesend and we follow his hilarious passage through the three month Lifeboat and Efficient Deck Hand course before embarking on his first trip to sea in September 1974 onboard the "Anco Empress". We then follow him on an adventure across the Oceans and upon the high seas around the world, crossing the Equator, learning his new skills and transforming a shy, timid and na?ve young man into an adult via Rotterdam, Montreal, New York, New Orleans, Rio De Janeiro, Durban and back to Rotterdam with hilarious and embarrassing consequences as he comes to terms with his ever changing environments and the Social demands of a work hard / Play hard regime.
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