About the Book: Buried alive...twice. Survived a WW1 POW camp. Drove through London with no brakes And lived to tell these tales!

"One of the perils of being a sniper during the First World War was the likelihood of a grenade going off right next to you and burying you alive”.

Meet Jack Rogers. Born in 1894, he once locked eyes with Queen Victoria and was one of the first travellers on London’s ‘Tube’. An early car owner, he had many escapades on his days out to Brighton, including a time when his brakes failed and he had to drive through central London without them!

His skills as an entertainer earned him popularity throughout his life, and kept him out of the deadly mines while a prisoner during the First World War. At the tender age of 103 Jack earned the title of ‘The World’s Oldest Columnist’ as he began dictating his life’s exploits to a reporter from the local newspaper.

About the Beverage: Sue recommends pairing her novel with “a stout beer, such as Hardywood Gingerbread Stout. Jack was a stout-hearted gentleman and had a very sweet tooth following the rations during the two World Wars. I think he would have loved a gingerbread flavoured stout!”

About the Author: Sue Bavey is an English Mum of two, living in Massachusetts since 2003 with her husband, two teenage kids, a cat named Midnight, a bunny named Nutmeg, a leopard gecko named Ziggy Stardust, and occasional frogs and salamanders. During Covid lockdown she wrote her grandfather, Henry John Rogers' biography, Lucky Jack (1894 - 2000) and it is now available for purchase on Amazon.

LUCKY JACK (1894-2000) is available on Amazon as an Ebook $4.99 and Paperback $11.99. More information and accompanying photos can be found here: https://suelbavey.wordpress.com/lucky-jack-photo-gallery/.

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