Runaway
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4.3 • 74 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet before year's end three returned, and returned damaged.
In 2015, a brutal murder forces those three men, now in their sixties, to journey back to London and finally confront the dark truth they have run from for five decades.
Runaway is a crime novel covering fifty years of friendships solidified and severed, dreams shared and shattered and passions lit and extinguished; set against the backdrop of two unique and contrasting cities at two unique and contrasting periods of recent history.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The scents of regret and squandered promise suffuse this well-crafted crime novel, about a group of senior Glaswegians attempting to make amends for past sins, from May (Entry Island). In 1965, they drove a stolen van to Swinging London to pursue dreams of pop stardom. Fifty years later, a small news item about a murder of the fugitive prime suspect in a 1965 slaying, himself long presumed dead draws together the group: the dying disbarred solicitor Maurie and one-time bandmates Jack and Dave (with Jack's depressed 22-year-old grandson, Ricky, as their driver), who all make a return trip to unmask the real killer. Deftly switching between the present and their previous journey, when the teens stumbled into the epicenter of the London scene as houseguests of well-connected but creepy Dr. Robert, May gradually reveals the expanding ripples of his story and the submerged horrors lying below. Like Ricky, the reader slowly comes to an appreciation of the still-passionate people obscured by old age and infirmity but it's a sobering trip not everyone will want to make.
Customer Reviews
Runaway
Excellent novel. Engaging. Keeps you reading on, not wanting to put the book (iPad) down, right until the last sentence. "I believe that I'm your father"