Steve Caple’s new memoir follows the author’s lifetime from being a solitary child roaming the wild and desolate places on the outskirts of a tiny village, Duston in Northamptonshire, to becoming the owner of his own successful pest control company.

It describes the chance meeting with poachers who taught him the art of ‘long-netting’ at night, and conveys his love of the countryside and describes in detail his many working dogs. Tales of escapades when being chased by gamekeepers and farmers lead the reader on an exciting journey through the woods and copses after dark. It describes night-time forays where ghosts and apparitions were observed and also time spent working at a psychiatric hospital as an apprehensive student nurse.

It mentions how, in his younger days aged just 15, he was also an accomplished magician with a TV appearance to his credit and how he was also a mediocre rugby player for Northampton Heathens RFC before a shattered leg bone ended his glittering career. The book is just a gentle meander through the childhood years spent in the village where he still resides to this day, the people he met, and the descriptions of the local area as it was when growing up in the 1960’s.