A whole life spent between Denby Dale and Penistone on the West-South Yorkshire border, including over 50 years as a local barber, are the inspiration for this hilarious, moving and thought-provoking collection of short stories, poems and recollections.

These are the ideas of Charles John Alexander Jarvis written in rehab in Geel, Belgium in 2022. We must ask serious questions about forced hospitalization, I believe that a drug-free society is the future, but we will never realize this by force.

Edited by Kristof Gabriel Carina van Hooymissen