Jim Westover (Author)

'Penknife' is the debut novel by author Jim Westover, which tells the story of rebel with a cause Jarrod Brook returning to his home town of Brightlingsea, Essex after being expelled from boarding school as a young teenager. The novel follows Jim and his escapades with best friend Colin during an eventful summer before being in the wrong place at the wrong time lands him in a Young Offenders Prison. We chat to Jim about growing up during in the late seventies and eighties in an a small Essex coastal town, the music that the book is based around, the local record shops, gigs and what's next on the horizon.