"Runaway" by Peter May - fabulous story! [View all]
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I had intended to write this review two weeks ago, but various events in RL belayed my good intentions.
I loved this book. I have no doubt that my love of it has to do with my age - I so remember what it was like in the early/mid 60s, and the story here moves seamlessly between 1965 and 2015.
We meet five members of a teenage rock band in 1965 Scotland, who decide to run off to London to make their fortune. Ill luck and strange encounters follow them. Eventually, just three of them return home to Glasgow- traumatized, confused, and broken-spirited, fame and fortune having never been achieved.
In the present day, one member of the band is dying of cancer, and enlists his old band mates on a journey back to London to put the past to rest.
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