Phil Hall

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I had a career with Kimberley Clark in numbers and finance, and then I had a really serious bike crash. Someone hit me from behind, knocked me over the handlebars. This was actually on Mid Street, where I live in Nutfield. Knew nothing about it, but he just sort of woke up almost, standing on my drive, bike beside me, covered in blood, and thought, oh, God.

I had a career with Kimberley Clark in numbers and finance, and then I had a really serious bike crash. Someone hit me from behind, knocked me over the handlebars. This was actually on Mid Street, where I live in Nutfield. Knew nothing about it, but he just sort of woke up almost, standing on my drive, bike beside me, covered in blood, and thought, oh, God.

And tipped her back into the house and my dear lady wife went, rushed me down to East Surrey Hospital. They took one look at me, took me straight through. Long story short, I was there for about 10 days and I smashed in a bit of the skull up here. And if it hadn't been for a bike helmet, I wouldn't be here today. So was that a bit of a life changing moment for you?

And tipped her back into the house and my dear lady wife went, rushed me down to East Surrey Hospital. They took one look at me, took me straight through. Long story short, I was there for about 10 days and I smashed in a bit of the skull up here. And if it hadn't been for a bike helmet, I wouldn't be here today. So was that a bit of a life changing moment for you?

Did you kind of reappraise what you were doing and where you wanted to go? It didn't feel so at the time, but it's turned out that way because the recovery was six, eight months or so. And my wonderful company said, thank you very much. We found someone else to do your job. And yeah, in fairness, they gave me a bag of money and pushed me out the door. I was really miffed about that at the time.

Did you kind of reappraise what you were doing and where you wanted to go? It didn't feel so at the time, but it's turned out that way because the recovery was six, eight months or so. And my wonderful company said, thank you very much. We found someone else to do your job. And yeah, in fairness, they gave me a bag of money and pushed me out the door. I was really miffed about that at the time.

But it did give me a chance to think, what am I going to do?

But it did give me a chance to think, what am I going to do?

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, absolutely.

Then that kind of brings it to sharp relief, doesn't it? Yeah. And so I thought, well, I've always fancied trying to write a book. How hard can it be? You're talking to someone who's written six books, and I can tell you, it is very difficult. Yeah, it is quite a slog, isn't it? My first one would show. So I started with a writing course over at East Grinstead.

Then that kind of brings it to sharp relief, doesn't it? Yeah. And so I thought, well, I've always fancied trying to write a book. How hard can it be? You're talking to someone who's written six books, and I can tell you, it is very difficult. Yeah, it is quite a slog, isn't it? My first one would show. So I started with a writing course over at East Grinstead.

John Pye, the guy who runs a bookshop, who's been very good to me, actually, because he stocks my books. They ran a little course above it, and I did...

John Pye, the guy who runs a bookshop, who's been very good to me, actually, because he stocks my books. They ran a little course above it, and I did...

six eight ten weeks or so of writing courses and they then said okay well start writing so i started writing a standalone story which was a bit of a psychological thriller set it in lingfield eventually it was like i'm going to publish it get it out there because you can just keep revising and revising and revising and rewriting and editing and subbing yeah Absolutely, it goes on forever.

six eight ten weeks or so of writing courses and they then said okay well start writing so i started writing a standalone story which was a bit of a psychological thriller set it in lingfield eventually it was like i'm going to publish it get it out there because you can just keep revising and revising and revising and rewriting and editing and subbing yeah Absolutely, it goes on forever.