Kent Baker

The Secret War 'dairies' of Joey Muldoon Kent Baker

Publisher Marketing: An anthology of linked short stories set in the Second World War. As seen through the eyes of Joey Muldoon a young boy from a lower workingA country at war as told through the 'Dairies' of a nine year old kid. Joey Muldoon's entries only occasionally touch on the Nazi Master Plan for World Domination. A much more fertile source for him was the no-man's-land of the red hot verbal exchanges between a failed comedian father and a feisty, still beautiful ex showgirl mother... With few examples of masculinity, (due to the 'call-up') kids like him learned to cope without male role models. We did have however, the magnificent bonus of our Mums and older women in our corner. And what women they were! Prepared to take on the heaviest manual labour, protect us, and even lay down their lives for us. They taught us how to stand up for ourselves, how to get over the death of a loved one, how to deal with the shock of our sexual awakening. Best of all they taught us that fun and laughter, unlike almost everything else was not rationed. Joey's stories often verging on the bawdy, tell us little about the major incidents of the Second World War. What they may do is remind us of time when kids took on responsibilities at an earlier age, and relinquished their innocence much later. K. B. Contributor Bio:  Baker, Kent After aworking life of about sixty odd wonderful enjoyable years as a professional actor Kent Baker abandonned the boards, sacked his agent, packed away his costumes and greasepaint to devote what time was left to him to write. 2013 saw his first book "The Secret War Dairies of Joey Muldoon" published by Amazon Books. Thanks, and God Bless everyone who bought, read and liked it. However you can take an actor from the stage- you can give him the hook!- but you can't take the stage out of the actor. His theatrical life still informs everything he writes, which is understandable when one considers he has spent years in repertory, The London West End, Musical theatre, Concert Party, Music Hall, Films, Television, Tatty Tours and Working Mens Clubs. Work that has taken him to Scandinavia, Germany, France, Africa not to mentionthe USA. Broadway. Yeah Broadway! and Chicago with the famous Second City Company. If he had to choose the most memorable of his wonderful experiences he cherishes probably best of all being a member of the Theatre Workshop Company under the directorship of Joan Littlewood. Not bad for a little lad from a housing estate in Bradford eh?