Joe Tucker

Joe Tucker's Uncle Eric was a beloved yet unconventional figure throughout Joe's life. A shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years, he had an almost compulsive need to charm strangers with working men's club comedy routines and appeared to exist only for daily trips to the bookie—yet had also amassed over five hundred of his...

The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker explores the life of Joe Tucker's Uncle Eric, an unconventional figure beloved throughout Joe's life. Eric was a shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years. He had an almost compulsive need to charm strangers with working men's club comedy routines and appeared to exist only for daily trips to...