Told as an autobiographical memoir, this fictional novel tells the life of John Fisher and his likes, secrets, passions and loves. From his childhood in the Scottish Borders town of Peebles in the early 1960s, when the use of corporal punishment was not only legal but encouraged. But it was illegal just to be gay, the story runs through from his schooldays to his retirement, and his encounters along the way. With a love of fast motorcycles, leather, and sex, John tells of his passion for one young man in particular and how, despite the hurdles which life can throw at him, love can overcome anything.

But on the journey through his life he loses one family, but he gains another, to all of whom he gets particularly close.

This is a companion novel to Marc Murrey's critically acclaimed first novel 'the Boy Who Laughed' and can be read as a stand alone story, with characters you really get to know and love.