BrightHat183

I'm Karl Birro, but write under the pen name CL Hyde who was my uncle and was killed when an able seaman on HMS Sheffield in WWII. My pen name is a homage to his memory and the life he should have had.

For over thirty years I worked in corporate glass towers, which I wandered into after completing a Ph.D. in something suitably arcane. Thanks to my escapologist wife and four children schooled in tunnelling, I was freed and celebrated the first anniversary of my dash for freedom by publishing my debit novel Eyes Shout Secrets.

I enjoy wonderful coffee and the absurd, the utter variety in particular.