As a young man, the author was engaged on the MCC ground staff at Lord’s Cricket Ground and played several matches at the famous Mecca of cricket prior to his National Service in the Royal Air Force. On returning to civvy street, he worked at numerous jobs: cricket coach, groundsman, insurance salesman. It was then that he began writing and went on to self-publish some of his novels.
Saturday Night Heroes is a romantic story of two working-class youngsters having their love tested when forced to go separate ways. Carol, by entering into a relationship that offers the better things in life.