Wakening

by Derek Johns (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2008

  $4.63

  This is a follow-up to the critically-acclaimed 'Wintering', in which our hero comes of age in the swinging sixties - he moves to London, grows his hair, chats up girls, and dreams of finding himself in Marrakesh.

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $6.66

  It is 1968, and Billy Palmer has dropped out of university and left the West Country behind. He is determined to go to Marrakesh and find himself, but his first stop must be London. When he arrives, Billy takes a cramped room in a boarding house and talks his way into a job at a bookshop, and then begins to explore the streets of Soho, where the political protests and pretty girls swirl about him. But even as he is caught up in the music and the parties, Billy is dreaming of a bigger adventure and plotting his escape to Morocco, with its snake charmers and story tellers and its vast golden deserts, where anything is possible and where his life will really begin .