Confident Dad, hopelessly confused son. Or the other way round…

They say that writing a book is the closest a man ever gets to giving birth. Well, after far too long in the delivery room, I’ve finally delivered the baby. Father, Son and the Pennine Way has now been published, and the e-book is available on the Kindle. Here’s the link to Amazon UK. For those of you that prefer something you can touch, hold and spill coffee on, the paperback will be along shortly.

The book is the story of the walk I did with Alex, my youngest son (and ‘Ben’ in the regular ‘Best Dad’ posts) in the summer of 2016. 5 days and 90 miles on the Pennine Way, the UK’s ‘toughest national trail.’

It’s the experiences we shared, what we learned about ourselves and each other – and the sorry tale of how I became perhaps the only person in the world to walk a mile of the Pennine Way in my underpants…

So far so good – the reviews are excellent with one person describing the book as “brilliantly written, insightful, brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny.” (If you’d like to read of the post I wrote at the time – many of which are in the book – use the ‘Pennine Way’ category in the right hand column.)

Now there’s the unremitting slog of promoting the book. It’s not a part of the job I enjoy – like a lot of writers I’m not a natural salesman – but it has to be done. It’s as least as important as writing the book. I’ll post more updates on the progress of the book over the coming weeks: For now it’s time to drop a note to BBC local radio: yes, I am available for interviews…