Past Forgetting is an examination of the entrails of the first twenty years of the author's life. Its purpose is forensic rather than prophetic since it seeks to investigate and reconstruct the formative happenings of those years in order to explain how and why he became what he did. It's setting is a South Wales dockside environment which had been called into existence at the end of the nineteenth century to meet the demands of the coal exporting trade. As such it flourished for a time then faded and no longer exists. Nothing quite like it ever was before and it will never again be replicated. Despite the historically momentous character of the two decades in which the story unfolds - the Nineteen Thirties and Forties - it is the people who populate the pages of this book and share with him the sometimes bizarre adventures of those formative years who exerted the greatest influence on his development. The places are real, the events took place and the people existed. The story is true but it is the author's truth. Others may have seen things differently.
