Peter John Fyles

Peter John Fyles was born in Burnley, Lancashire, in 1963. He left school at sixteen and worked ‎various menial jobs. Several years later, he returned to education and went on to acquire three ‎university degrees. Then he travelled around the world: he picked up tulips in Holland, sexed ‎chickens in Israel, drove across America and picked up dirty overalls in Australia. When he ‎returned to Europe, he bought a two-acre plot of land in Ireland and tilled the soil for four years. ‎After he had met his Swedish girl in Athens in 1986, he went to live in Sweden, where he became ‎the CEO of the largest free school group in the country. He has three children; Alice, John and ‎Billy, and this book is his story of growing up in the north of England in the 1970s.‎