The Adventures of Robert, Bob, Rob, Ropp, Lobaato & Robby
Book One1952 – 1986by RP Monk
Thirty-four years, ten chapters and the first four of the eight men Robert Monk turned out to be. Funny, frank and full of music, from the Coronation, watched on one of the first TVs in the street, to the Club Med jetty on Farukolufushi.
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Book One of a two-part memoir
He was a lab technician, a guitarist, a salesman and a holiday-resort entertainer. All before he turned thirty-five. Book One follows Robert Monk from a council house on the edge of Wolverhampton to a coral island in the Indian Ocean, by way of six Birmingham bands, a single on Logo Records and more curry than is strictly sensible.
Ten chapters take him from a small house in Wednesfield in 1952 to a coral island in 1986: grammar school and a sixth-form guitar club, a university lab and a record deal, a whirlwind marriage, and two seasons with Club Med in Greece and the Maldives.
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Written for adults. Strong language, frank descriptions of sex and drug use, and an account of abuse the author suffered as a child.
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