Heart-rending twist to tale

FOR LANDLUBBERS, the book vividly creates what it is like to be tossed about for days “like a tiny sponge in a gigantic freezing slushy jacuzzi”.

It recalls distant water fishing in its heyday, when fisherlads, the “cowboys of the deep”, wandered like “Serengeti” herds to Hessle Road pubs in pastel suits and 20-inch bellbottoms.

The book is also a lovestory of a teenage deckhand Tony Harrison and his girlfriend and later wife Jill Harrison, (now Jill Long) that ended with a heart-rending twist.

A book signing will take place at Waterstone’s in Hull at 2pm on November 25, before an official launch at Middleton Hall at the University of Hull on December 15.