Gerald Dickens

Gerald Dickens is a great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens and has been performing one-man stage shows based on the life and works of his ancestor for over twenty years, undertaking major tours of both the UK and America each year. As part of his performance of the atmospheric ghost story The Signalman Gerald began to research the circumstances behind the Staplehurst rail disaster which led to the writing of this book. He lives in Abingdon with his wife and youngest children.