Playing Out: Swings and Roundabouts

by Paul Douglas Lovell

Overview

If Paul was a pigeon his dad would probably wring his neck.

The runt of the litter, the youngest of five, he grasps at life.

Children struggle with different and Paul is unique. He's being raised by his dad on social welfare… It's the 1970s, toys are crap and money is short.

Struggling with the constraints of poverty and desperate to fit in, obeying the rules is not easy. In a bid to gain the right sort of attention laws are broken or replaced by his own set of values.

Scrumping, scampering through sewage tunnels and scrounging are just a few of the things that occupy his existence. 

Paul's life is PLAYING OUT.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166453273
Publisher:	Paul Douglas Lovell
Publication date:	04/01/2022
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	342 KB

About the Author

A Black Country Lad who now lives in the Black Boy Land or Schwarzbubenland as it is called in Switzerland.

A difficult start has given spice and excitement to what was destined to be a dull life. Or that's how I see it.

Raised by my father, the youngest of five I spent many hours Playing Out. My school years were disruptive. An inconvenience standing in-between my freedom and the big wide world. Uneducated and somewhat troubled I went to London.

I spent around twelve years working as a rent-boy (a male prostitute) I did some travelling.

In 2000, whilst in Ibiza I found a husband (civil partner) and a new chapter in my life began.

Now I write.