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Having been so serious with thrillers such as TALKING IN WHISPERS and FAIR GAME: THE STEPS OF ODESSA,set in harsh and dangerous situations, I turned to comedy and drew on the experiences of my own early life with PIGS MIGHT FLY, an original Amazon Kindle publication. It is all about a young lad, Clark Gable Stevens, nicknamed Curlew on account of his uncanny ability to imitate that haunting creature of the moors. 'You'll have to grow up fast, Clark,' his hospitalised father advises him as he entrusts the running of the Ritz cinema to his son. Its debts are rising by the hour. Curlew mounts a SAVE THE RITZ campaign in the teeth of those who want it demolished and replaced 'with one o'them supermarkets'. As if Curlew hasn't enough on his plate, there's the little matter of Susan his beautiful step-cousin and his all-time dream girl, only she's also the dream girl of every bloke in town. What will become of him as one problem piles on top of the last(not to mention being falsely accused by his headmaster, affectionately named Dracula by his pupils, of setting fire to the school sports pavilion; and what will become of his Dad's precious cinema and his plan to run a season of foreign movies with subtitles, a sure way as Curlew readily admits of driving the townsfolk into the nearest bingo hall. The calamities rise to a deafening crescendo plus a hosepiping for good measure.Read on!