Runaway

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Each had their own reason to leave and their experiences test the bonds of friendship, eventually taking a tragic turn. Of the five who left Glasgow, only three will return. But... 50 years later, a brutal homicide will unbury that dark period of their Past — it was time for the inevitable confrontation!... Peter May has done it again. He’s created yet another thrilling read, one that pulls you in from the start until the end. Peter, having only fairly recently stumbled upon your story post Eastwood School, I feel I owe you an apology. We were briefly both in a very small ‘Creative Writing’ class with Mr Cowan. My memory has this as being in 6th year, but as I don’t remember you being expelled, I may have got this wrong. Anyway, we were asked to comment on each other’s writing, and I’m afraid I slated you – hopefully politely. I believe I may have been in my metaphysical poets phase – that will have to suffice as an excuse.

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Five of us had run away that fateful night just over a month before. Only three of us would be going home. And nothing, nothing would ever be the same again. However, 50 years later, the murder of an old man in a seedy London bedsit, makes former vocalist Maurie Cohen, who is dying of cancer, feel compelled to return and confront the ghosts of the past and he persuades his two former bandmates to accompany him.Since Author May is a veteran of the TV mills and decades of thriller- and mystery-writing, he's developed that habit of story-telling and be damned if you, reviewer, wish for something a bit more textured, true to life. As this particular novel is a standalone and is based in part on some of the author's own lived experience, well...maybe it's all down to that specialty of the old, the tidying-up of the past.

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Nothing, of course, goes to plan. For all of them this will be a life changing journey. Some will benefit from the journey but some will never recover from it. After a few months of traumatic living in London most of the boys make the decision to return home to Glasgow and their worried parents. So do you remember where you were 50 years ago? These aging lads do – but they do not seem completely sure of how and why they have gotten to where they are. I have just finished reading ‘Runaway’ and while I have read counless books over many years I’m struggling to recall feeling so moved. Five very young men, disillusioned with life in Glasgow, decide to leave home and seek fame and fortune in London. Just a note left, for unsuspecting parents, to say goodbye.

Guided by a common dream, 5 boys flee from Glasgow to London. However, less than an year later, 3 of them returned — what happened in London has been buried but not forgotten... Runaway opens in 2015 with a murder in a downmarket room in London. Few would remember the name of the aging victim, former actor, Simon Flet, except Maurie. Fifty years earlier five starry-eyed 17-year-olds playing in a band together, were runaways from Glasgow, following their dream of finding fortune in Swinging Sixties London. I thoroughly enjoyed Runaway by Scottish author Peter May; my first by this author but most definitely not my last! A gripping crime novel, filled with fast paced, heart thumping tension; plus intrigue, emotional nostalgia and flashes of humour throughout. Told in the two timelines of 1965 and 2015 it worked incredibly well in showing the differences fifty years makes. I have no hesitation in recommending Runaway very highly. Runaway is told as two parallel stories about the same group of men, as they were in 1965 and as they are in 2015. The parts about the sixties in London were just brilliant with frequent nostalgic mentions of the music and events of the day. I enjoyed all of the characters and felt a little sorry that they had not all had better lives. Regret is such a waste of energy. You can’t undo what’s been done. But every new day offers the chance to shape it in the way you want”