Taking stock, looking back and scrutinising our choices in life - Angmering author

By Phil Hewitt
Published 30th May 2022, 10:05 BST
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June Olliver
As we get older we take stock, look back and scrutinise our life choices, the life we have led, says Angmering author June Olliver.

The result for June, aged 75, who writes as Clement Russell, is Get on the Train (Olympia Publishers, £9.99, available from Amazon etc)

“We, all of us, usually settle for a way of life. That doesn’t mean it is unhappy or unfulfilled. It just doesn’t always meet the idyll that we dream or fantasise about. To some degree or another, we all slip into a what if world now and again.

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“Get on the Train is about the unimaginable becoming real. The fantasy becoming a reality. That, to me, is a magical thing. It very rarely happens but I thought I could write about it happening. Bring a bit of magic to the page maybe.

“I love music – all music – and the book has a strong theme about music running through it. I think we are all fascinated by those who can create music, write it, perform it. The main protagonist has all this in shedloads.

“I also like to laugh. It has been a mainstay of my upbringing (Glaswegian mother and Royal Marine father) and my own family life. I think young children sit at the feet of raconteurs and naturally funny people and learn to laugh, to make others laugh and know how wonderful that feeling is.

“I was so lu