Is there an underlying theme or message in The Orbury Way.
Yes there is, it is fundamentally about change, specifically within golf. Up until not so long ago, a golf club was the bastion of wealthy men. For some clubs that is still the case with women not allowed and strict dress codes enforced both on and off the course. But that is slowly being eroded with lady memberships thriving and a younger generation who are not interested in being forced to wear a jacket and tie in certain parts of the clubhouse. I'm very interested to see how old clubs handle this change and whether the older generation who run and control these clubs embrace or reject the modern world as it closes in. The Orbury is just such a club and over the series of books we will get to see how they handle it.
Why did you decide to write about golf?
Two reasons. Firstly because I have read many times that as a writer you should write about what you know and I know a lot about golf! Having been Captain at a golf club and running a golf league I know how such organisations run so it made it easier to write convincingly about it (I hope). The second reason is that I love golf and I wish I could read about it more, there are very few golf novels around and I believed that other golf lovers would enjoy a golf novel with comic undertones.
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