Allen Nicklin was born in St Albans in 1949 and has lived there ever since. Allen attended the Marshalswick School for Boys before taking an apprenticeship with Eastern Gas Board. In 1978 he qualified as a teacher and taught various subjects at the Hertfordshire College of Building and the St Albans College of Further Education. In 2004 he took up the position of Lecturer in Mathematics at Richmond upon Thames College before retiring in 2012. In 2009 Allen started writing short stories for his friends and family following a dare. This is his first published novel. Allen is married with two dau...