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Jack Heaton

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in The United Kingdom

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Thriller, Crime, Ebooks

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Do you ever have that itch in the back of your head that compels you to do something? That feeling that the world isn’t right unless you take some action, no matter how objectively foolish that is?

That was me, in October 2012. I was watching my industry go up in smoke, taking the skill set that I’d used to carve a fairly decent fifteen year career along with it. So, in between juggling childcare and a dramatic realignment of my life, I sat down and wrote a story that had been clamouring for a while to be told. It arrived, almost fully formed as Hell’s Garden over the next few months.

About me: I grew up in deepest, darkest Somerset. A fairly uneventful childhood led me to a University in the North of England, where I managed to cobble toge Do you ever have that itch in the back of your head that compels you to do something? That feeling that the world isn’t right unless you take some action, no matter how objectively foolish that is?

That was me, in October 2012. I was watching my industry go up in smoke, taking the skill set that I’d used to carve a fairly decent fifteen year career along with it. So, in between juggling childcare and a dramatic realignment of my life, I sat down and wrote a story that had been clamouring for a while to be told. It arrived, almost fully formed as Hell’s Garden over the next few months.

About me: I grew up in deepest, darkest Somerset. A fairly uneventful childhood led me to a University in the North of England, where I managed to cobble together a degree in Psychology and meet the best wife I could ever hope for. I then promptly began a career writing tenders and faceless documents for various government programmes, living out of hotels, spending a fortune travelling to clients. It was close, but even the soul destroying grind of eighty hour weeks writing five hundred page responses to other five hundred page specifications in anonymous hotel rooms did not take away my passion for stories.

Fast forward to today and I live in the Peak District with my wife and two wonderful (most of the time) young children. I have changed my lifestyle completely and the future path ahead of me is unknown and a little scary, but it also isn’t that horrible grey monotony that seemed to pervade my 20s and early 30s.

I have taken the bulk of the childcare over and actually made some flapjacks for the school cake sale the other day. I’m shocked at how unequal the split between men and women still is though – I’m normally the only male at the playgroup we go to.

When not juggling nappies and chasing after out of control two-year olds, I’m sinking back into the things I never had time for: cycling, cookery, walking. When funds allow, I also live for travel and I will also be using this website to expand my portfolio of travel photography.

So welcome, I hope you’re here because you found the story of Jacob and Rebecca interesting enough that you wanted to find out more. I promise to keep the website updated and I’ll try and hit that tricky balance to send out just enough tweets to keep everyone happy. I’ll also try and answer any emails that come my way.
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The disapproving reviewer

It is always a bit of a risk to respond to a review, particularly one that isn't particularly complementary (for example: this meltdown), however one of the reviews that Hell's Garden attracted recently brought up some very interesting points, including some that I'd planned on blogging about at some point. So let me start by saying thank you to all the people who have taken the time to read and Read more of this blog post »

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	Hell's Garden 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Pay the Devil (Jacob Daedalus Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hell's Garden: Volume 1 (Jacob Daedalus) by Jack Heaton (2013-04-10) by Jack Heaton (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars