The Gamekeepers Other Daughter

This is a journey through Doreen's life. The geographical journey takes you from wild and rugged John O'Groats to a village in Kent (for a stopover of twenty-three years); but there are many stops along the way and the author now resides in the beautiful city of Lincoln. The emotional journey is not for the faint-hearted. As a very young child Doreen was left to fight her own battles which were many. In her words My father was a man so evil; he used the isolation of the Yorkshire Moors to submit his family to misery and mental torture. She discovered a long-buried secret that shocked and saddened her also destroying any fond feelings that she had for her mother. A hard life indeed; Doreen experienced homelessness at sixteen a brush with danger the Law and very nearly murder! She had to fight for her family over the years; a fight that she says nearly brought me to my knees. More recently was the sorrow that shattered her heart into a thousand pieces but eventually steered her into 'calmer waters'. However there are many moments of humour and snapshots of social history. She explains why she had a deep hatred of school and people in authority. The resilient and feisty child became a teenager looking for 'love's young dream' and finding her first love who kept a piece of her heart forever. Relish the memories of New Year's Eve in a small village north of the border during the sixties! In Doreen's words Buckle your seatbelts it's a rocky ride.