A song of the suburbs: a story of family, friends, first love, tragedy, hope and rock and roll
It's 1976 and with dreams of a career in rock, a crush on the prettiest girl in town, and a mother in remission from cancer, Mike’s future looks bright.
Music brings excitement and a chance to shine, but life off-stage is complicated.
Together with family, friends and band-mates, Mike finds joy, sadness and loss. Troubling secrets surface while a new friend brings both fresh perspectives and a cruel reality. The radios and pubs blast rock into the suburban nights and the band prepare for their big break. Is Mike ready?
A warm, thoughtful, questioning novel; a reminder of simpler days, complicated emotions and music of a generation
I loved this book! I found that I just couldn’t put it down and read it in one day!
It was a really lovely story told from Michael’s (JB’s) point of view. He spent a lot of time finding out, waiting for and learning about ‘moments’ and I thought the journey that he took us on with this story was just beautiful.
I liked the other characters of the band and they were a lovely bunch to get to know throughout the story. And they all had their individual traits that were quite endearing at times as well as intriguing in some cases.
I feel like it was a very grown up coming of age story yet it was so much more than that, I feel that is a very poor way to describe it but I can’t seem to find the right words to describe it properly. The range of emotions throughout the book was portrayed very beautiful and really well thought about and written. The topics covered were done so in a very thoughtful and at times insightful way, especially factoring in the era that the book was set in.
I loved how ‘musical’ the book was and found myself singing songs as I was reading the chapters and I also thought the book captured the emotions of music and the impact music can have on people’s lives brilliantly.
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Huge Thanks to Love Books Tours & Paul Marriner for my place on the blog tour.
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