“A wife in ten thousand!” – that’s how Sir James Reckitt described Ann, his mother – who was the Norfolk miller’s daughter but many would say she was a wife in a million and Hull’s unsung heroine.
But, for Ann – Hull would have been a poorer place; thousands upon thousands of people would not have had quality employment.

This biographical novel is her, previously, untold story; from an early 1800s childhood, when her mother was left a widow with six daughters – to being the wife and mother who held the family together, ensuring the prosperity of the business enterprise, internationally famed and bearing the name Reckitt; now, however, linked with the name Benckiser and known simply as RB.

You’re sure to have one of their products in your bathroom cabinet, on a shelf in the laundry room or under the kitchen sink but if it wasn’t for Ann – a miller’s daughter from Norfolk – it wouldn’t be there. One very special lady.

UK Price – £7.50

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An odd title for a book, you might be thinking – and you’d be quite right.

I suppose that in many ways it’s been an odd sort of life.

Born 1944 – the son of a psychiatric nurse and a wartime serving Royal Navy sailor and being two days in the coming was, in it’s own way, pretty dramatic to say the least.

With a basic secondary modern education I left school at fifteen and started work as a laboratory technician, from there I went on to be a ladies hairdresser, a furniture salesman, a departmental manager, salon owner, local magazine editor and publisher, circus clown, music hall performer, a Shakespearean actor …… the list goes on and has done for the past fifty years but I’m now settled into an “odd” sort of retirement by the seaside and currently in the process of producing a community musical I’ve written.

Yes indeed – an odd sort of life but huge fun!

As the saying goes – it’s all in the book; I hope you enjoy reading it.

UK Price – £7.75

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