It’s a rainy August in Manchester and music writer Peter Duffy’s life is falling apart. He’s knocking on fifty, his career is flatlining, his marriage is failing, and his teenage son barely speaks to him.
And then a friend from university days invites him to a party at the manor house where he met his first love, the dazzling Sanchia Page. All the old gang are going to be there, and although it’s a long shot, maybe she will, too, which wouldn’t be helpful. Or would it?
published by Lendal Press, 24 February 2022
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“Warm, funny and affecting. A page-turning delight.”
CAROLINE SMAILES, author of The Drowning of Arthur Braxton
“Sidelong and unblinking, The Former Boy Wonder is full of truth clothed in comedy and frustration. Robert Graham tells such a funny, sad and tender story of how we dream and what we’re dealt.”
HORATIO CLARE, author of Heavy Light
“I kept picturing lipstick traces on a cigarette and hearing late-night records, the kind you play to conjure up a golden age. This wonder boy’s song brings a romantic’s past to life on the page and reveals the secret fears behind it.”
JEFF YOUNG, Costa Award-Shortlisted author of Ghost Town
“A wonder of a novel; a charming blend of truth, humour, and mid-life longing.”
JAMES RICE, author of Alice and the Fly
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