Gordon Finn is an electrical engineer, now retired and enjoying life in the Lake District but not without some concern to note that the years appear to be passing in two’s.   He found this reality was emphasised more clearly during a recent conversation he had with an elderly gentleman of ninety two who said that the days were passing so quickly it was like having breakfast every five minutes.  At his present age he is beginning to agree.

Gordon Finn writes purely for pleasure with the added satisfaction that by doing so he keeps his grey cells ticking over.  In his secondary school days he remembers that writing an essay of one hundred lines or so was a major feat which he found difficult. Now, usually late at night, he finds his pen has a will of its own and ideas materialise from the ether without any preconception.

“Yesterday’s Porridge” is his first novel, the inspiration of which originates from his real life experiences of being an evacuee during WII.  In 1941 he was uprooted from home to be dumped into a foster care home with many other similar aged children who came from war torn cities up and down the country ravaged by the Luftwaffe.  The novel charts the fictional lives of the people associated with that home.