My name is Terence Joseph Goodchild I was born in Manchester in the UK, at the age of nine years old I was put in an orphanage named St Josephs convent orphanage in Salford with my brother who was 6, we stayed in there for about two years and when we were released we were total wrecks, and all through my life I had to put up with having a stammer, being picked on laughed at and many other indignant things, at 16 years I contemplated suicide by driving my car into the motorway bridge, but just as I was about to do the deed I stopped myself and thought there has to be a better way, and from that day onwards I became successful in my own right, and married a wonderful person, we have been together 53 years and married 50, and live on our farm in Tasmania Australia with our horses and a cat and dog I have written 16 books about my life and where all the people in the stories are part of me and my life