Set
in the cultural twilight between the conservative 1950s and the liberating
sunshine of the late 1960s, Just a One Night Stand tells the emotive story
of unmarried Marion McKenzie who, at nineteen, becomes pregnant during
a drunken one night stand with Martin Corrigan, a Somerset farmer’s son.
Unaware of his paternity, Martin goes up to Cambridge University.Author, Freelance Copywriter and Editor
"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with." - Marty Feldman
David lives near Bolton, Lancashire with his wife, Chris and Giles, his
son from his first marriage.
Just a One Night Stand is David’s debut novel. His second book will be
a true and inspirational story set in 1911 about a fourteen year old Scottish
girl who emigrates to Australia with her family, with tragic consequences
but an inspirational outcome. That book is currently in the research phase
with publication pencilled in for late 2011.
Other than writing novels David has also written some poetry, just for
pleasure rather than for publication.
Before embarking on his new and exciting career as a writer, David spent
over twenty years in Financial Services. The last nine were spent as a
partner in a Bolton firm of Independent Financial Advisers, where, apart
from creating countless bespoke client reports, David produced the biannual
client newsletter which he also branded and sold to other firms with a
circulation of around 4000 copies. David sold his share of that partnership
in June 2008 to pursue his writing ambitions.
Personal History
David was born in London in May 1964 with a complex congenital heart
condition known as a Tetralogy of Fallot. Consequently, he spent the first
few months of his life at the Middlesex Hospital in London whilst the
medics assessed the severity of the problem. As his young, unmarried mother
was unable to care for him, David was transferred to a boarding-out house
under the specialist care of Dr Barnardo’s (now Barnardo’s).
In May 1965, David was very fortunate to attract the attention of a young
couple, a Church of England clergyman, Andrew Macintosh and his wife,
Mary, a former nurse. They agreed to foster David, full in the knowledge
that his chances of long term survival were at best precarious. He moved
to Lampeter to live with them and their young daughter, Rachel, before
the whole family moved to Cambridge. Over the next ten years David gained
two foster brothers, siblings to Rachel; first Alexander and then, seven
years later, Thomas. Forty-five years after joining the Macintosh’s, David
is still proud to call that family his own.
Since the mid-1960s, David has had two major heart surgeries, the first
in 1967 at the Middlesex Hospital and then ‘the big one’ in 1973, carried
out by Sir Terence English and his team at Papworth Hospital. The complex
eight-hour operation was a major success, effectively repairing all the
structural defects to David’s heart. Able to run around properly for the
first time, David spent the next few years playing catch-up (much to the
detriment of his academic studies), indulging in all normal activities
with the exception of cross-country running and squash. David went on
to represent his schools at cricket and tennis. Whilst doing his degree
in Leeds, he took up hockey, a passion that lasted at club level well
into his thirties.
David’s other passion in his early twenties was motorcycles, once earning
him the dubious short-term nickname ‘Dangerous Dave’ for riding his Triumph
Bonneville back from Harrogate to Leeds with a severed clutch cable.
Unfortunately, sporting and motorcycling activities were brought to a
sudden halt in 2000 when David experienced a potentially fatal heart arrhythmia
whilst on a charity bicycle ride from Manchester to Blackpool. As a result,
he is now the proud owner of an implanted cardiac defibrillator (ICD),
an electronic box of wizardry that will save his life by administering
a localised electric shock, a ‘jump start’ to the heart should a serious
arrhythmia occur again. So far the device has only gone off in error (albeit
8 times in one 40 minute episode which David described as being like a
session in the boxing ring with Mike Tyson).
Whilst acknowledging that he has already used up several of his nine lives,
(including the odd near miss on motorbikes) David now takes life at a
more sedate pace. Perhaps a little wiser, David now cites his main interests
as writing, playing the keyboards, fine wine, cooking for friends, watching
his son score centuries at cricket and, when time allows, relaxing at
the family apartment in Portugal.
If you wish to contact David, please feel free to email him at enquiries@davidmakinson.com
or go through the forum.
