Roger Knowles
ASIN: B0057YA0FO
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 153
Tired of aggressive, ungrateful customers, hapless motor-cycle repair shop owner, Simon Jones, decides that enough is enough. Encouraged by a newfound ‘gift’, he decides that it’s time to seek a new and better life.His savvy wife, Hazel, isn’t impressed by his ‘gift’, but agrees that a week’s holiday in Cornwall with the kids, Becky and Ben, and their delinquent golden retriever, Orpheus, would be a good idea, a chance to consider their future.During the holiday, an incident in a gift shop sparks an entrepreneurial idea, and they return home full of plans to set up a new business.Initially, the business goes very well but an unanticipated disaster strikes, leading to near bankruptcy.Desperate for money, Simon has a short spell working in a factory warehouse followed by a longer one as an unsuccessful insurance salesman.One day he returns home from work, broke and full of despair, to be ...