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(More customer reviews)Jake is an estate agent by day, local rock star by night. When his wife kicks him out of their home, he takes up with a teenage groupie named Jade. While not exactly happy with his life, he is.... making due. But when Jade announces she is pregnant, his wife decides she might want him back, and a record label just might want to make him a star, his meager Resistance is turned on its head.
Tim Roux has woven a delightful tale of rock and roll, and I loved every minute of it. I loved Jake's story, both learning about his present situation, and the past that led up to it. I felt like the characters in this book were real and very relatable.
The book was very funny, but it was a wry, snarky sense of humor (my favorite kind), so some readers may have a difficult time relating at first. As an American, I did not get all of the British references in the book, but that did not in any way detract from my enjoyment of the book. All in all, I found the book incredibly entertaining. Anyone who loves rock and roll is sure to feel the same.
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Jake Pembleton is a Hull-born singer-songwriter who once killed a man. This doesn't make him the East Riding folk-singing Yorkshire Ripper of CrackTown's famous song, but it still plays on his conscience. Now he is in real trouble. Ever since returning home to his wife and kids to find his suitcases parked outside his front door, Jake has been holed up in that wild and lawless part of Hull known as `The Avenues' with a springy nineteen year old groupie who is so sexy that she nearly gives him a heart attack each time she steps out of the shower. Jake's only hopes are Harry, his wife's new boyfriend who keeps her sane, and that he will never meet his Kirkella-dwelling parents-in-law again. Beyond that, he just sits there clutching his guitar, writing his songs, loving his girl, and praying for better days and relief from a day job he is too ashamed of to talk about.
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