My Friend Peter

About the Book

Peter Fairall changed thousands of people's lives. From the money he and his wife Yvonne collected for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to the man who set fire to his house to the foreman whose best suit received a large dollop of soap foam to the judge of the supreme Court, all of these people remember Peter with different emotions. One thing is sure. They remember him. To read this book is to follow along the life track of a man who felt Life was dumping on him and fought back. If nothing unusual happened by midday... he made something happen. A good friend and a terrible enemy. Yet, through the whole book, your sympathies are with him and a deep longing to emulate his loyalty to his wife, family and friends. His favorite saying, "I don't get mad, I get even."

About the Author

Bernard Woolston-Young was born, April 6th. 1935. When World War Two started he remembers standing at his front gate watching a Messerschmidt fighter flying below rooftop height up the road and bullets flicking up from the road while his mother screamed at him to come into the shelter. He was four.

At eighteen he went into the Royal Air Force for two years National Service as an Air Frame Mechanic finishing up on 153 Squadron at West Malling in Kent. He was an Insurance salesman, an exporter of bicycles for Norman Cycles, Export Manager for Sorex selling rodenticides and Insecticides and then in 1968 he came to Canada where he was Assistant Retail Manager for a lumber yard, then an apprentice carpenter and for eleven years a building contractor. In 1983 he moved to British Columbia and worked in a mill until an accident forced him to retire and he commenced to write under various nom de plumes.