Larry Harrison was a cowman and yak keeper for the Tibetan Buddhist community at Karma Kagyu Samye Ling, in Dumfriesshire. He went on to work as an assistant dairyman on a commercial Ayrshire herd, before leaving Scotland in 1975 to work with disadvantaged children at London's Clapham Junction. During Larry's subsequent career, as a university researcher on alcohol and drug problems, he wrote Tobacco Battered, a BBC Radio 4 feature, and over fifty journal articles, academic books and book chapters. He was appointed Reader in Addiction Studies at the University of Hull, before retiring to the East Yorkshire countryside to write fiction. Glimpses of a Floating World, was his first novel (Lulu, 1990), and The Lemon-squash Continental Hotel (Xlibris, 2019) is his second.