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I have really enjoyed this book, kept me wanting to keep reading to find out about the next bit of the journey all through. Love how it’s written with the twists and turns. And so “nothing happened in 1986″……you had better have a read and see what you think???
★★★★★
I hugely enjoyed this book, which is unlike nearly everything I’ve ever read. A really compelling and original story, with deep, interesting characters. It also invoked a strong sense of nostalgia for a simpler, less connected time. Would highly recommend.
★★★★★
Well written and paced, read it in one sitting. Doesn’t really fit into any genre, but just a damn good book. Characterisation is a real strength, genuine, interesting people who you actually give a crap about. The author is a Stephen King fan and does possess that writer’s talent to make you care about characters and pull you into their story. Highly recommend this book.
★★★★★
Another brilliant book from this author. It mixes vulnerability, love and humour. A lovely plot, it’s easy to identify with the characters, and there are twists and turns around every corner. If you like this book, read the other ones by this author. I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.
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It’s 1986, a world of student grants, cheap beer and some of the greatest music ever recorded. A drunken night out for a group of students sets in motion a chain of events that will change their lives. It will endanger them, their friends, their families and possibly the world.
Alice runs a top-secret and enigmatic government facility, The Centre. Her job is to sort out problems which cannot be dealt with through the usual channels. When a major security breach is detected, she finds a link between this new threat and one of her first cases for The Centre in 1986.
Working in a car park isn’t everyone’s idea of a good job, but Tim King is happy doing just that. Day in and day out, he keeps things neat and tidy, staying largely unnoticed, but noticing everything. His routine is disturbed when he realises his trolleys are going missing.
The summer of 1976. Bad hair, awful clothes and terrible music. Weeks on end of record-breaking high temperatures. Reservoirs and rivers ran dry, and the crops didn’t grow. It was a time of adventure and discovery, as I took my first steps on the long transition from childhood to adolescence.
Chris is having a bad time – all the time. He hates his boss at the garden centre, his old school bully has come back to torment him, and his local has been taken over by drug-dealing louts.
Estranged from his wife, Fiona and daughter Jo, Ian is working in a call centre, doing a job he hates for a boss he can’t stand. He is living alone in a shared house. But things start to change when he finds a phone on a bench.
With nowhere to live and no job, Joe needed something to read, to fill some empty hours. The drawings in the margins of the charity shop book were intriguing and beautiful, swirling across the page and hinting at unseen figures and places.
