Memoir
Up in Shincliffe last weekend, I finished reading Richard Hines's second book which is also a memoir. It is titled, "The Place That Knows Me" . Three years ago, Richard and his wife Jackie reached a critical point in their lives which might have been framed by the following question: Should we stay in South Yorkshire close to our roots or should we move two hundred and thirty miles down to Brighton in Sussex? The reason that this quandary had arisen was that both of their grown up children had settled in Brighton and their daughter had given birth to their only grandchild down there. Should they stay or should they go? Richard reflects upon what I have recently referred to as "the land of your heart". He and Jackie grew up in the mining village of Hoyland Common six miles north of Sheffield and then in 1981 they moved into the city itself where they raised their kids. Their son and daughter were several years ahead of my children but they went to the sam...