A Cockney's Journey by Eddie Allen [Paperback]

Published: 15th May 2013

Length: 130,000 words (approx.)

Also available as a Kindle Unlimited eBook.

Eddie Allen grew up in Peckham and Old Kent Road during the 1960s, subjected to brutal beatings from his father, homeless and thrown into fatherhood and marriage at sixteen. His spiritualism began with a vision of his dead grandfather at the age of eleven. His journey is both unique and compelling - you will never read another story like his.

I strongly believe that certain paths I've taken in my life were subject to spiritual influences.

All the sudden changes, good or bad, were definitely out of my control. Anything good or gained, I had to give back in some way, as though I was being primed for something else.

So why write a book about my life, my experiences and beliefs? I'm just a cockney builder from South London who has no literary skills whatsoever. My father convinced me I was a dunce and my school days were a farce; my school reports were disgusting. I only learned how to write properly when I was forty-seven.

I am absolutely convinced I have been helped along the way; taken off one path and directed onto another. Maybe, as everyone tells me, the path I am on now is the end result of these interventions.

Why? I'm not sure.