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""From its tragic, heartfelt lows to hilarious highs, Walker's personal odyssey lingers long in the mind."" (Mark Townsend, The Guardian) ""Dice-rolling adventure with twists and surprises. Snakes, dad's double. Mr Auden's slippers."" (John Hegley, poet) ""A joyful, intelligent celebration of music, literature and friendship."" (Charlie Lee-Potter, writer & broadcaster) ""Empathetic and thoughtful, sometimes humorous, sometimes incredibly moving."" (James Bluemel, film director) ""Highlife hits the high notes and holds them with an amazing kaleidoscope of memories."" (Lisa St Aubin de Terán, writer)

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Richard Walker OBE spent part of his childhood in Ghana, read English at Oxford, and worked in Canada, Spain and Kuwait, before joining the British Council. Much of his subsequent professional life was spent travelling the world as a senior Director for the British Council. This brought him postings in Bangkok, New Delhi, Sao Paolo, Lagos, Cyprus, Athens, Brussels and Hong Kong. Now he divides his time between his home in Oxford, and the house and garden he and Lauren created by a Venetian town in the Peloponnese. Several of his stories and plays have been broadcast by the BBC, and in 1989 he published his first novel, A Curious Child. Innovative for being written from the perspective of a transgender person, this is also due to be republished by Amaurea Press in 2025. He was awarded an OBE in 1998 for Indo-British cultural relations.

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