BIG BOYS DON’T CRY
By Nick Battle
Authentic Media. 166 pages
ISBN 978-1-86024-612-8
The author has led a life which is totally alien to me, mixed with show-biz people whose names are familiar, but hold little interest for me, and so at first glance this book would not touch my life. However, some life experiences are common to all of us: pain, sorrow at the loss of a loved one, the need for companionship, understanding and love and the desire to make sense of tragedy when it occurs.
Nick Battle has spent his life in the modern music business and freely admits that he has sometimes led life ‘on the edge’. He is very honest about his mistakes and affirms throughout the book his reliance on God, his own state as a sinner, but his joy in knowing that he is accepted by God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
There are parts of his story that left me feeling uncomfortable, as he declared himself a Christian, but seemed very much part of worldly living. It was not until the middle section of the book that I felt involved with the writer. His wife was diagnosed with cancer and it is at this point that his true colours are nailed to the mast. When faced with such a problem, who else could he turn to but to an Almighty God? Where else would he find comfort and deep understanding except among God’s people? It was at this point that I realised that we belong to the same ‘family’, and that his description of fear, pain and suffering were very useful to others facing the same issues.
Mary Stolarski,
Southport, literature worker with Grace Baptist Mission
