Growing up in the 80s and 90s, Ashleigh Nugent didn’t talk about his aspirations to be a writer.
Living in Rainhill and spending much of his time five minutes up the road in Prescot, he recalls how the local area was “lacking” in culture. “I always wrote,” he explains, “but didn't tell anyone about it.”
“It was one of the few things I was told I could do and should pursue in later life. But for various reasons I later turned against school, formal education and all authority - therefore I hid it away.”
