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An ex-millionaire who abandoned his riches to become an author is promoting his first book from a caravan.
Jack George Edmunson gave up his job, his houses and his luxury life in the Cheshire countryside when astrologer told him to seek a simple life by the sea.
Now the former logistics consultant writes books from the mobile home and he plans to tell readers about the joys of leading a simple life.
In an eye-watering divorce the self-exiled author gave up all of his assets including a holiday pad in Catalonia and 80 per cent of his working pension.
But Edmunson, who made the break when he turned 50, said he doesn't regret losing his fortune or his status among well to do north-west socialites who he blasts in his novel 'The Sunsharer'.
He said: "I gave up everything, two very nice homes, cars, money.
"But that's fine, those things could never bring me happiness.
"That life is so false and so superficial, the boring dinner parties, everyone talking about how much money they earned, it was so dull."
The writer said his new book, which is the first in a three part trilogy, was heavily influenced by his 'poisonous' previous life.
He said: "I'm an outcast now, I've been ostracised by the 'Cheshire set'.
"They don't want to know me now I'm not a logistics consultant earning silly money, but that just proves my point all along, these people are false.
The semi-autobiographical debut tells the story of a businessman who hates his life in the incestuous upper-middle class society.
And revelations of sordid affairs in the novel has landed the author in hot water with some of his old friends.
He said: "When I go back to Cheshire everyone who has read the book wants to know, 'who have you been having an affair with'.
"I have grown men coming up to me asking if I have slept with their wife.
"It's funny to me because I used to watch it all happen, they were all at it.
"But I never had an affair, I just watched them all going behind each other's backs, and wrote about it in my book."
The debutante novellist said he would continue to use the bourgeois classes as subjects for his work, according to Edmunson the irony of their 'self-involved' lives, is too interesting a study to not write about.
He said: "It's something I've been involved in, and thankfully escaped.
"But the way they live is almost lauighable, they look down their noses at those financially less well off, but their lives are terrible webs of lies and falsities."
Edmunson now plans to travel back to Spain in his caravan and continue to write by the sea.
He will donate profits from the 'Sunsharer' to children's charity CITE.
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