Andy Ritchie lives a relatively unremarkable life with his long-suffering wife, Wendy, his two inordinately expensive-to-keep daughters, Kayleigh and Emily, and the ghost of their recently deceased three-legged cat, Burt.
They live in a well-appointed detached house on the outskirts of the occasionally exciting former cotton-mill town of Darwen in Lancashire, which remarkably was never actually mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Andy is forty-six years old but remains (in his own eyes at least) fairly ‘hip’ and ‘cool’ on the basis that he owns an iPod, can use Facebook, has completed Halo, and knows who Dizzie Rascal is.
In addition to becoming a published author, published poet and published photographer, he also has an ambition to experience a mid-life crisis before he is forty-eight, if only because most of his friends appear to have had one and he feels a little left out when they are being discussed at parties.

Whilst The Book That THEY Do Not Want You To Read is the first novel that Andy has ever had published, they are not the first of his words to make it into print. He did once have a very small article published in Trail Magazine about how he once climbed to the top of a mountain called Merrick.
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