John Uttley was born in Lancashire just as the war was ending. Grammar school educated there, he read Physics at Oxford before embarking on a long career with the CEGB and National Grid Group. He was Finance Director there at the time of the miners’ strike, the Sizewell Inquiry and privatisation, receiving an OBE in 1991.
Shortly afterwards, he suffered his fifteen minutes of fame when he publicly gave a dividend to charity in the middle of the fat cat furore. Following this, he took an external London degree in Divinity while acting as chairman of numerous smaller companies, both UK and US based.
He is married to Janet, living just north of London. Over the last fifteen years, he has published The Unholy Trinity trilogy, a family saga. And now, as an octogenarian, he has written this stand-alone novel, The End of the Line, a celebration of lives still being lived to the full as the Grim Reaper makes his plans.