'After mum left dad couldn't really afford to feed us'
Oliver Sykes' mum left when he was just nine-years-old. It meant his dad was left to raise him and his five young siblings singlehandedly.
"I think a lot of children are feeling the same thing now - going to sleep hungry, not knowing where your next meal's coming from." Oliver had almost 50 fights as a schoolboy, including a large number of unlicensed bouts at events like the Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria. But his dreams of turning pro were shattered when, aged 17, he was attacked in a skate park by a gang of six lads.
He got a place studying theatre at Lancaster University, eventually graduating with first class honours. After leaving university he took a job working on a production line of a factory manufacturing brake part in his home town, but all the time he was desperately trying to get into the theatre world.
The story is inspired by Oliver's own childhood. But when it came to pitching the book to publishers the boxing plot meant most rejected it out of hand.
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