July fiction release: No Precedent by John Uttley

a service from

The essential journalist news source

11.

June

2020.

July fiction release: No Precedent by John Uttley

Good afternoon,

Five years after we worked on the publicity and marketing for John Uttley's debut novel, Where's Sailor Jack?, we are gearing up to help launch No Precedent on July 1st 2020. We would like to send you an advance review copy and we'd be happy to connect you with Lancashire-born author John Uttley for interviews and editorial commissions. The book is set in Lancashire where the author spent much of his life; he now divides his time living between Lancashire and London.

No Precedent is the "poignant, funny, thoughtful and raw" sequel to Where's Sailor Jack?, due for release next month. The northern grammar school pals Bob Swarbrick and Richard Shackleton are back, now facing the era of Brexit, Momentum and Donald Trump. For the first time in their lives, Bob and Richard struggle to see the meaning of it all.

Author and critic, Stephen Carver, says of No Precedent: "A wonderful follow-up to Where’s Sailor Jack? this time told by Bob and Wendy themselves. I laughed, I cried, I considered moving north. Poignant, funny, thoughtful and raw, No Precedent gives voice to the babel that is modern culture, as experienced by a group of very different families who all nonetheless love each other to pieces."

More information below in the Advance Information Media Sheet. If this is of interest we look forward to hearing from you!

Thanks,
Helen Lewis
Director - Literally PR
www.literallypr.com

ADVANCE INFORMATION SHEET

No Precedent

By John Uttley

A picture containing text, book, bird, sittingDescription automatically generated

No Precedent is the "poignant, funny, thoughtful and raw" sequel to Where's Sailor Jack?, due for release in July 2020 by novelist John Uttley. The northern grammar school pals Bob Swarbrick and Richard Shackleton are back, now facing the era of Brexit, Momentum and Donald Trump. For the first time in their lives, Bob and Richard struggle to see the meaning of it all.

The trials and renewals of Where's Sailor Jack? (John Uttley's debut novel released in 2015) behind them, they find themselves in a world whose faith and politics have moved beyond their sphere of influence and feel increasingly cut off from their roots.

Bob, now settled with Wendy, must reconcile old memories and new children while Richard must save his family from themselves. Along the way, they are adopted by the lascivious Lucy Fishwick and her predatory daughter Maddie, whose lives are as mad and chaotic as the radio play Lucy is trying to write and, indeed, the world itself.

But despite the coming plague, it doesn't look like Armageddon. There is to be an apocalypse, but one of personal dimensions. We don't all go together when we go!

No Precedent gives some clue as to why Brexit happened and why the red wall fell, not that either protagonist wanted the former, nor would have wanted the latter if Harold Wilson were still prime minister. John Uttley knows the towns of the north, the county boroughs as he still calls them, and writes with nostalgia and reflexion on times gone by and times yet to come.

About the Author

A person standing next to a treeDescription automatically generated John Uttley was born in Lancashire just as the war was ending. Grammar school educated there, he read Physics at Oxford before embarking on a long career with the CEGB and National Grid Group. He was Finance Director at the time of the miners' strike, the Sizewell Inquiry and privatisation, receiving on OBE in 1991. Shortly afterwards, he suffered his fifteen minutes of fame when he publicly gave a dividend to charity in the middle of the fat cat furore. Following this, he took an external London degree in Divinity while acting as chairman of numerous smaller companies, both UK and US based. He is married to Janet, living just north of London. This is his second novel, based on the characters of his first, the much-loved and critically acclaimed Where's Sailor Jack?