The Planning Officers

By David Waine

Lift the roof off the Town Hall and take a wry look inside. Anna Maria Aitcheson and Dirc Starkey are so absorbed in their careers and each other that they never consider the community they are employed to serve. Noel Gosling is employed, officially, to ensure that they perform to professional standards. His real job is to ensure that the many complaints about them get no further. Follow them all through one stormy day, which begins with glory beckoning, if they can only bundle one insignificant citizen out of the way first...

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Waine
• Release date: Jul 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476019871

David Waine

David Waine was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1949. He is the youngest of three brothers, all of whom went on to become teachers like their father. It was during his teaching career that he developed an interest in writing, initially plays, and his adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' was performed at the Cockpit Theatre in London (the forerunner of Shakespeare's Globe) as part of the Globe Theatre restoration in 1991. He took up novel writing after leaving the profession, and his first published work, The Planning Officers appeared in 2011. He lives with his wife in the foothills of the Pennines. www.davidwaineauthor.com