About the Author

The journey to sharing the Thread of Kindness was not a straight line; it was a path forged through the life of a "forces brat" lived on the move. Born the middle brother to two sisters into a Royal Marines family, the author’s childhood was shaped by constant displacement. Moving from town to town throughout the 1970s, he was the perpetual "new boy," forced to grow up faster and harder than his soul ever intended.

In the playgrounds of a dozen different schools, he learned the visceral reality of the "deepest dark." He was a child who wanted to write, yet found himself forced to learn to fight—navigating the shadows of bullying and the rough edges of constant new starts.

His natural gift for storytelling was evident early on when he won a local competition in junior school for a story about a plodding shire horse. However, that creative spark was nearly 

extinguished in secondary school. In a moment of bitter irony, he was punished and pushed away from reading and writing after being accused of submitting work that was "too good" to be his own. Silenced by those who should have mentored him, he walked away from the pen for decades.

Instead of writing, he lived.

He became a soldier, a scaffolder, a salesman, and a driving instructor, a husband, a father, a grandfather. He worked in the high-pressure environments of fast food and the delicate 

landscape of mental health. It was in these diverse roles—among the workers, the warriors, and the weary—that he rediscovered the truth at the heart of his books: Kindness lives in us all, when we let it.

Now, over forty years later, the silence has ended. Drawing on the grit of a life spent in the "trenches" of the real world, he has finally put pen to paper to share the Thread of Kindness chronicles. He writes for those who have been silenced, those who have had to fight, and those who still believe that a single luminous thread of compassion can bridge the gap between the 

ancient and the modern.