Steve Juke was born in the 1950s to a Polish father and Welsh mother, He grew up in the model village of Oakdale in the Sirhowy Valley in South Wales. He is now a grandfather and h...view moreSteve Juke was born in the 1950s to a Polish father and Welsh mother, He grew up in the model village of Oakdale in the Sirhowy Valley in South Wales. He is now a grandfather and has three children and six grandchildren plus three step grandchildren.
He was a policeman for thirty years before trying his hand at being a driving instructor when times were tight and gave that up despite a good success rate. He then took up writing the stories he used to tell his children as bed time stories and started on Tales from Abercwmzoo but as he wanted a start to show how Abercwmzoo came to exist in the Sirhowy Valley it changed from a children’s story and became The Awesome Lives of Tommy Twicer incorporating his father’s birth place Tuchola in Poland and his family’s home Oakdale.view less