The Apprentice

A gritty and detailed diary of what it was like to be young and innocent in a small northern English town in the early 1980's, from the first weeks of unemployment after being fired, surviving a killer bout of meningitis, learning to act, write and perform and gradually re-educating myself and re-casting Tony in the mould he wanted but actually building the mould itself by taking tiny bits from those who influenced him, in a world where no school or university could ever truly train such a person for such a unique and idiosyncratic career. Also features 50 poems plus the short book 'This is where we live' and The Bond Letters, detailed correspondence from the late playwright Edward Bond.