Product Description: Full of extraordinary characters, this book is an unsentimental memoir of the 1960s and 1970s in Kent and Sussex told through the discovery of fishing. Reminiscent of Laurie Lee and Jonathan Meades, Dexter Petley's book will be remembered and celebrated for years to come.

Product Description: An unforgettable novel -- about carp fishing, madness, driving and love. From fishing for carp and trout in the waters of East Sussex, to driving the Dream Car across the cinematic America of his imagination, Josh's childhood had always been fuelled by the need to escape: from his father, always up to his oily elbows in Swarfega; his mother, just fed up with it all; Mr Chittenden next door, the grim gamekeeper who put a gun to his head and poached his own life...read more