Publisher's Synopsis
As a book, 'A Series of Regenerations in a Charmed Life' fits somewhere between a coherent novel and a collection of short stories spread over the lifetime of the narrator. As such, it also represents a biography, albeit one wherein the central character seems to change from story to story, to the extent that he becomes barely recognisable, and often seems to vanish during a series of "regenerations." Readers are given insights into the sometimes strange life of a the narrator who, as an infant, survived the 'Blitz" of London. They are next transported in turn through several 'time leaps' to post World War II South Africa at the height of the shocking apartheid regime, the life of an immigrant 'rocket scientist" in California and Florida during the exciting 1960s 'Space Race', the life of an adventurer a during 1000s of miles cruising the great Pacific Ocean on board a 32-foot cutter; and ultimately the onset of old age. The stories may also be read separately and in any order, serving as glimpses into lives and times of colourful and often bizzarre characters in equally strange worlds.
