A Cuckoo Calls

This is a delightfully enchanting supernatural love triangle encapsulating the lives of: Anna, Susan and David. A love triangle with a difference chronicling the life of David from his early life as a young boy living on a farm to the days he meets Anna and Susan who together guide him into a successful business career. The story starts in 1955, times are hard, the boy is eight years old and he lives on a farm with his Grandmother. He is a loner and has no friends his own age to play with, he is at one with nature and wildlife; he has learnt to communicate with the birds and animals. Suffering from Dyslexia, David has a torrid time at school being bullied by both the nuns and his classmates. Aged 14, a chance meeting with Anna at a bus stop in Manchester is to change his life forever. The story line will grip the reader and have both tears of joy and tears of sorrow streaming down their cheeks.

About the Author :
David A Ogden, married to Kathleen, two children Anthony and Katie. Born in Manchester, England, was educated at Stretford Technical College, Manchester Polytechnic and the University of Teesside. Gaining formal qualifications in Mechanical Engineering: including HNC and a Diploma of Work Study Organisation and Methods and Degree of Masters of Business Administration. Commenced working life as an apprentice engineer and progressed his career working for three American Corporations. Held numerous management positions including: General Manager, Plant Manager and Operations Director. In 1982, David got the nickname White Knight, which was given by work colleagues. On 29th September 1979 Eaton Truck Components was totally destroyed by fire over 500 employees lost their jobs overnight. David was fortunate to be one of the employees who kept his job, he was appointed as one of five Project Managers given the task to re-build and re-facilitate the Manchester Plant. Three years later the plant was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh and many previous work friends got their jobs back. Subsequently they gave him the nickname for the work he had done on rebuilding the plant. At the time the new factory was one of the most technological advanced manufacturing plants in the world and did with robots what nobody had thought possible. The plant was featured on the BBC television programme Tomorrows World. In January 2003 appeared on the television game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire. That night turned out to be an absolute nightmare everything that could go wrong did go wrong. He new that because he is dyslexic he would be at a disadvantage but did not realise how big the gap was between him and normal people nor did he realise just how many things can go wrong in just 3 seconds, the time it takes to play Fastest Finger. Following the appearance on the show wrote his first book Winning Ways for TV Gameshows.