 your second book yes i'm very excited i know it's been out a while on amazon but this is this is the the first official this is the official launch yes happening in glenn the old glenn bar at three o'clock saturday brilliant good spot yes uh tell us tell us a wee bit about the book it's about uh it's it's about a young newlywed woman well her and her husband yes yes it's um based john on a real legal case from my life from their life my parents life which occurred it's set from the years 1956 to 1965 and uh so the central uh bones of the story is based on a true a true legal case okay okay yeah now the fact that it's set in sort of uh devillaries ireland is the factor oh yeah oh that's a big factor yeah they were austere times you know what i was just talking to my friend about it and we were saying we fought for our independence we fought hard and then dev closed us right in again yes and then that yeah they had to be another fight then entirely for for women to get their independence absolutely he brought in the one man one one job uh rule which you know for somebody like my mother uh proved to be a tricky situation uh of course married men could teach away and do with the like but uh married women if they were teachers they had to give up their job yeah i was just looking back now there's such strange times and and yes you know which had about the good old days yeah the good the good old days no they were tough times and uh gracey gracey is really a woman before her times you know she was um a qualified teacher which in those days coming out of college in 19 uh the late 40s early 50s most women who taught and indeed some men they they were just well educated you know they could read and write or they had their leading cert but she was one of the first to come out of curries for college in black rock dublin and as i say in the novel fully qualified well she she had to battle against a lot of things and not just the the era that she was living and working in but she she struggled as well with with some of her neighbors and there was some pub owners who didn't like competition in yes yeah yeah well i mean there's kind of shades of the field john b kim's field about it you know uh there's a famous quote about writing which says there are only two plots someone goes on a journey or the stranger comes to town and in gracey the stranger comes to town you know it's that you know that spaghetti western feeling where the the locals just don't want you they they're threatened um they are not very nice they're you know they're insecure and in comes this young hopeful couple um uh jim is a maverick you know he he is out of step he's not a devil era person he's a michael collins man um which back then wasn't probably the most popular thing to be mm-hmm wasn't seen and so they stumble into a nest of wasps if you like and they get very badly stung it's it's like when you walk into the post office and everything goes quiet haha yeah i remember those times yeah who doesn't yeah yeah i certainly remember them yeah there's you know there's a bit of gossiping going on and you you decided to take the plunge into writing um there was some time back now you retired in 2012 and uh mind you this is one of your second books so what have you been doing for the rest of the time well this one has been in the making for about four years um and uh i suppose i'm a bit lazy i mean i could have i could have stuck with it and be one of those writers who you know writes from seven to two and from five to whatever but i wasn't really um and uh uh this is it now john this is the timing for this one so okay okay and uh or we're gonna have to wait a long time then for the third one hopefully not i'm actually kind of quarter way into that one now at the minute so uh maybe i'm gathering confidence as i go yeah i'm gathering pace yeah yeah okay so uh tell us about saturday saturday afternoon in glen bar saturday afternoon from three to five you know ish there'll be a wee glass of wine the book will be there um i'm just hoping now that i'll have enough books for everybody because if everybody arrives who says they're coming out uh there might be room in the pub for them but um it's also going to be available in the bookmark you know beside pennies in letter kenny oh yes in the shopping center yeah that bookstore from sunday um the day after the book launch they'll be out there and on monday so you know anybody who wants it and can't make the book launch get in there uh as quickly as you can it is available i know people who have already downloaded it on their kindles because a lot of people read on kindle now um and it is on on amazon of course and it will be available hopefully uh for the christmas market and all the little independent uh bookstores around the place as well and if anyone's seeking it out it's called gracey and the section would be historical fiction historical fiction exactly yeah yeah yeah well the best of luck with the book couldn't be coming out at a better time now now that there's a whole charge for for books ahead of christmas and and and hopefully it features well listen it's called gracey and uh the launch just remind listeners again is uh the saturday afternoon the glen bar in carry gert uh or in the in the in the glen bar in glen katrina thank you very much thank you john pleasure