I was lucky enough to be able to ghost-write and design my father’s memoirs, which I presented to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Here’s a synopsis…

Peter Oughton is an EAST HAM BOY. Born in 1936 to an ordinary family in an ordinary suburb of London. But it was an extraordinary time. Like so many other wartime children, he experienced the excitement and horror of air raids and devastation. And being separated from his parents to be evacuated to the countryside for his safety.
Post-war austerity, apprenticeships and National Service were no less challenging. Determined young people, like Peter, had to move out of the ravaged capital and physically build their own homes in order to make a life for themselves and their families.
EAST HAM BOY is a very personal memoir that paints a picture of what life was like for a whole generation of people who grew up in wartime and post-war Britain.