Nobody Watching

Gareth is afraid of moving from junior school to grammar school. He believes he will lose his friends and his way of life. This book gives an insight into life in the 1960's without technology, day time television and shows that life for children is lived largely outside of the house. The world is a smaller place and the village is the universe for most children who look after themselves in a community which is supportive in an unobtrusive way. Gareth's journey through 1962-3 is beset with hopes and fears and although he would like to find a way to maintain his current way of life he eventually realises that life changes irrevocably. He sets out his story in a series of journals which he hides cleverly. A stranger discovers the first journal in a house in which Gareth lived and this sets the finder on a voyage of discovery - discovery about Gareth and the secret of truth and fiction. The story is based in the village of Llandaff North in Cardiff, Wales.