This book is the life story of Scott Fellows from his childhood in the early 1960s to the present day when he is a chaplain at Manchester College of Arts and Technology. Some autobiographies are much more detailed as people think they have to write at least a paragraph on every tiny episode in their life. This can often produce a tedious narrative as for most of us many parts of life are fairly mundane. Scott Fellows uses a different approach.
The fourteen days in the title are described in fourteen chapters through the book. I found this an interesting way to look back on your life - remembering certain key days with absolute clarity and detail because each one of them taught you something important. For Scott Fellows these fourteen days chart his growing up and the important lessons he learnt about life at each stage.
His conversion when he had reached rock bottom is a pivotal section of the book and is followed by days when the recognition of God's activity in his life became a little clearer. Hindsight allows you to see the action of God in your life leading and guiding where in the present moment you are often so full of the living of life that God's influence may not be clear.
Scott often writes with self depreciating humor and sometimes sadness but always in a way that is interesting to a nosey outsider looking into someone else's life, (and if it wasn't for such nosiness why would anyone ever read an autobiography of anyone who wasn't really famous?)
It is not a deep theological tome and does not contain pages of morbid introspection but here is a fairly ordinary Christian person detailing his life and showing in a down to earth and honest way how God can work through the lives of people and give the grace and strength to get through difficult and challenging situations.
Both my wife and I enjoyed reading the book and it is a credit to Bob Davies that his shoestring publishing company truly does what the strap-line on his letter heading promises - "encouraging creative writing - revealing hidden gems".
