The Rich Life of an Ordinary Man

About the Book

This is a story where the richness of life has been found in ordinary things – family, sport and faith. For this ordinary man, life’s meaning is not found in pursuing power or money but in living everyday life searching only to find value in life itself. Beginning in dramatic events of wartime Europe and its aftermath, the story moves to its main location, a New Zealand undergoing great changes in its way of life. Early personal insecurities and lack of self-belief became part of a lesson which precedes a journey into confidence and a wonderful realisation that the greatest gift of all is to get to know that as an ordinary human being he is the equal of any other person on earth. It is a story that leads all ordinary people to realise that we have this gift within us and there is no need to desire anything else.

About the Author

Lou is married to Sandra. Together they are proud parents of five lovely children. When he was two years old, living in Holland, World War 2 had only just ended when his parents decided they would take him on a new adventure to a new land in New Zealand. Lou began writing in 2011 when his grandfather asked him to write his biography. Soon after this request his children asked him to write his own autobiography. Lou lives a semi-retired life together with Sandra and a few animals on a small farm overlooking Lake Rotorua in the North Island of New Zealand.