Jerry Simcock Author

Jerry Simcock is now retired and lives a quiet life, painting, writing, gardening and making willow baskets in East Lothian. He studied European History and German at Sussex University in the 1970s and spent some of his late teens and early twenties in Frankfurt and Bonn. In Frankfurt he was caught up in the underground scene and with the general mood of the time questioning the events of the past and the American presence in the city. After University he became a baker in Brighton and then trained to teach excluded and disadvantaged children. He worked for many years as a teacher in a child psychiatric unit and later worked with children, young people and adults needing additional support. His stay in Frankfurt was a mind-blowing year of encounters and discovery and is the source of this debut novel – Giselle and Mr Memphis. He is a Zen Buddhist practitioner.