Middlesbrough Man: Part Two: The Middle Years

This is the second book in a trilogy and traces the life of Denis Lawrence from leaving school at 16 years of age.It begins with Denis describing, with humour and insight, his experiences in the RAF during his National Service, followed by accounts of his career first as a teacher and then as an educational psychologist. Eventually, as a family man with three daughters, Denis describes the difficulties he encountered in having to balance his developing career with his hobby as a yachtsman. He gives a humorous account of his yachting days cruising mainly around the coast in the South West of England. The book concludes by outlining the events that led up to his emigrating to Australia and so achieving his childhood ambition of living in Australia. In the conclusion to the book Denis shares with the reader his emotions when during his boyhood he would sit beneath the Captain Cook Monument on the Cleveland Hills and wonder where Australia could be and what it would be like to live there.