John Uttley
THE LAST VICTORIAN AND THE FIRST BABY BOOMER
The home of the author of The Unholy Trinity Trilogy
Where's Sailor Jack? - No Precedent - The Dove Is Dead
Welcome to the official website of John Uttley
John Uttley was born in Lancashire just as the war was ending. Grammar school educated there, he read Physics at Oxford before embarking on a long career with the CEGB and National Grid Group.
He was Finance Director at the time of the miners’ strike, the Sizewell Inquiry and privatisation, receiving an OBE in 1991.
Shortly afterwards, he suffered his fifteen minutes of fame when he publicly gave a dividend to charity in the middle of the fat cat furore. Following this, he took an external London degree in Divinity while acting as chairman of numerous smaller companies, both UK and US based.
He is married to Janet, living just north of London. He has undergone several of the rites of passage of later life between these three books; in particular, he has given up his business interests, the three children have flown the nest, and the old family dog has died.
My new book: The End of the Line
This is quite probably the last book John is going to write. He is back in his favoured territory, north of the Ribble, in green pastures, and south in cabbage fields.
This time, he’s changed the characters. Young lovers many decades ago, Sheila and Jim meet up again in old age after the death of their spouses. Their marriages had been good ones. Sheila has a large family to prove it. Jim has only haunting memories. Their mourning is genuine but they both still have a few years left before the Grim Reaper will call. Can they make the most of them together?
They befriend a young pair of lovers whose relationship is doomed to fail. Oldies and youngsters help each other to navigate their way through. Much has changed but more has stayed the same.
It’s been a great ride.
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the unholy trinity trilogy
“In the war, before I was born and when my Dad was in the navy, the family had a budgie, Tinker, who they’d trained to say ‘Where’s Sailor Jack?’ It’s part of our family folklore. My Dad died years ago, but I still ask that question.”
“There wasn’t a lightning strike at the church in Evesham where the funeral took place, which Bob regards as sufficient evidence that his theology is sound.”
“It does seem to me that the Dove is dying. Whatever it is that keeps the western world together, if anything, it’s not religion.”