Love, Love Me Do, Mark Haysom
Love, Love Me Do, Mark Haysom
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Love, Love Me Do

Author: Mark Haysom

Narrator: David Thorpe, Katie Scarfe

Unabridged: 11 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/31/2014


Synopsis

1963. The year the Beatles first top the charts. The year Martin Luther King has a dream. The year Truman Bird moves his family from their home in Brighton to a dilapidated caravan in the Ashdown Forest - then disappears.

Truman's a charmer, a chancer, a liar. He's always got away with it, too. But now he's gone a dangerous step too far and only has one day to put things right - before he loses everything.

For Truman's wife, Christie, life has not turned out the way she'd imagined. How has she, that young girl of not that many years ago, ended up like this? In a caravan. With three children. And an absent husband.

Honest and unsettling, yet ultimately uplifting, this unique, wise and addictive British debut weaves themes of love, betrayal, family and childhood, and shows that even though life has a habit of getting in the way of dreams, people find their own extraordinary ways of bouncing back.

About Mark Haysom

After graduating from Leicester University, Mark Haysom had a thirty year career in newspapers during which he rose from trainee journalist on a local weekly to Managing Director of Mirror Group. In 2003 he moved into education as head of a large Government agency. In recent years he has served on the boards of a number of charities dedicated to overcoming poverty, disadvantage and addiction. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Leicester University in 2005 and the CBE in 2008. Mark lives in Brighton with his wife, Ann. This is his second novel.


Reviews

As quirky and original as 'When God Was a Rabbit' A book about love in all its complicated forms A gangster drama like a more thriller-esque 'Brighton Rock' Original and stylish It transports you straight back to the 1960s A touching story about childhood and family A book about second chances, purely and......more

Goodreads review by Emily

Love, Love Me Do. I'll always love you. These Beatles lyrics epitomise not only the title, but how I feel about British author Mark Haysom's debut novel of second chances and trying to find your dreams in a world too full of reality. Truman Bird is a charmer, a gambler and a fraud. In 1963 he packs h......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

Attracted by the sparkly cover and poppy title, I picked this book up, expecting a frothy, nostalgic romp through the 1960s. But the publisher’s strapline provides a better guide to the absorbing story inside: Five unforgettable characters searching for a second chance. It explores issues of loyalty,......more