42 min
Jim Westover (Author) Spinners of Yarns
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- Music Commentary
'Penknife' is the debut novel by author Jim Westover, which tells the story of rebel with a cause Jarrod Brook returning to his home town of Brightlingsea, Essex after being expelled from boarding school as a young teenager. The novel follows Jim and his escapades with best friend Colin during an eventful summer before being in the wrong place at the wrong time lands him in a Young Offenders Prison. We chat to Jim about growing up during in the late seventies and eighties in an a small Essex coastal town, the music that the book is based around, the local record shops, gigs and what's next on the horizon.
'Penknife' is the debut novel by author Jim Westover, which tells the story of rebel with a cause Jarrod Brook returning to his home town of Brightlingsea, Essex after being expelled from boarding school as a young teenager. The novel follows Jim and his escapades with best friend Colin during an eventful summer before being in the wrong place at the wrong time lands him in a Young Offenders Prison. We chat to Jim about growing up during in the late seventies and eighties in an a small Essex coastal town, the music that the book is based around, the local record shops, gigs and what's next on the horizon.
42 min