Author Spotlight Frances Beaumont

We are super excited to have Frances Rowley Beaumont, coming to the Broadstairs Book Fair, with her biographical book, about an extraordinary man, Owen John Oliver.

John Oliver on the Cervia

"Owen John was born the second son of Christopher and Muriel Oliver. His father, Christopher Pix Oliver was involved in torpedo design in the Navy in the first world war and then ran the Oliver Brother’s Garage in Glinton, a village near Peterborough on the fertile fenlands of eastern England.  Owen, as he was known at home, or John as he was known elsewhere, was born without hands and had a club foot. He became completely independent using ingenuity, his skilled left foot and his two short arms. He was not disabled, but differently-abled and was fiercely independent."

Frances Rowley Beaumont

Please do come along to the book fair and speak to Frances and learn how she came to write this amazing book, after knowing John for 45 years.

The Broadstairs Book Fair, 13th April 09:30-16:00 The Pavilion, Harbour Street, Broadstairs.