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Dayglowman is the story of an ordinary life that turned out to be anything but ordinary.

Told with humour, heart, and more than a little colourful language, it’s a raw, funny and deeply personal journey through a working-class childhood in 1970s London, through family chaos, friendship, loss, and the long road to becoming something like a normal, functioning adult.

It’s also honest about the harder parts of that life.

This book doesn’t pretend everything was rosy. There are moments of anger, conflict, and real, uncomfortable violence – because that was part of the world it grew out of. Nothing is glamorised, nothing is exaggerated, and nothing is written for shock value. It’s simply told as it was.

From boarding schools and broken homes to dustcarts and dad life, Philip Spires looks back on a life lived at full volume – sometimes joyful, sometimes painful, often ridiculous. It’s a tale of growing up, getting older, and discovering that even the messiest lives can find their way to peace.

Honest, unfiltered and full of hard-earned warmth, Dayglowman is proof that no matter how rough the start, there’s always room for hope, humour and a decent cup of tea.

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