DAVID G BAILEY’s latest work features his trademark mixture of gritty realism, caustic humour and a multi-level, pacy narrative through the period from 2017 to 2025, encompassing that of the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores relationships of baby boomers with each other, their previous and subsequent generations, and what it takes to be a man in the modern world.

In David’s previous contemporary novels, Them Roper Girls (2022) traces in their own voices the lives of four sisters from their 1950s childhood, while Them Feltwell Boys (2023) follows a Roper-girl husband’s crude attempts at teenage love in counterpoint to his cynical womanising as an adult.

David debuted in 2021 with Seventeen, a football fantasy adventure novel aimed at and beyond young adults. From 2024 The Sunny Side of the House is the clear-eyed narrative of a 1960s boyhood in East Anglia, a first volume of autobiographical non-fiction in a projected series, When Life Gives You Strawberries – Memories of a Fenland Boy. The author currently lives in the Midlands.

To read more of and about David’s work, including a quarterly newsletter and new content daily comprising extracts from diaries and other writing over more than fifty years, visit his website www.davidgbailey.com.