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Follow on Google News | Jaguar in the Drive and Other StoriesP. Somers puts strong women at the centre of his collection of short stories
In Jaguar in the Drive and Other Stories, Somers draws on his experience of living in a family full of women when he was growing up to create belieavable and engaging female characters. “Most men are afraid of women,” he explains. “I’m not (my wife of fifty years is still a mystery to me!), but because I started my life in a world dominated by women, I am able to create a female central character.” Somers considers his collection to be an odyssey, with each story taking place in unfamiliar territory, a world away from what is known to the protagonists. The first story draws on the author’s own experience of meeting a jaguar in the wild in 1961, just after a hurricane in Belize. Another explores a female protagonist’ P. Somers was born in Stockport, Cheshire, to an English mother and Irish father. He was brought up in a house full of mainly women until the sudden death of his mother, when his father moved him and his family to Ireland. At the age of 18, he decided against university education (reading Economics later in life), instead applying for work in Civil Engineering but was turned down as he hadn’t completed his National Service. After accepting a short-term engagement as a regular soldier, for various reasons he stayed for 15 years, travelling to many countries on many interesting assignments. After a blocked artery almost finished him off at the age of 59, he decided to retire early and lives in Mexico with his wife while they wait for their 60-foot Ketch to be repaired. PUBLICATION DATE 30th May 2014 eISBN: 9781783065653 Price: End
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