Runaway
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00Z7J7CQ4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 596 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not a good book by a good writer This is the fifth book I have read by Peter May. The Lewis Trilogy was great, with wonderful imagery, mood and good plotting. Entry Island was good enough, although one had to suspend belief a good bit and forget about how it reminded you of several fanciful movies about going back and forth in time and reincarnation. Runaway is not badly written. The author is a very good writer, but the plotting is bad. Fantastic Read!! Christine Larsen I love reading Peter May books! He keeps you from the first page to the last wrapped in a great story with wonderful characters tied into a great mystery. If you like reading a book where you can't really guess the ending, then you'll LOVE reading Peter May books.. Zaphelps said I enjoyed it.. I didn't love this book as much as the ones in the Lewes Trilogy but it was a very imaginative read.
"Five of us had run away that fateful night just over a month before. And nothing, nothing would ever be the same again."Glasgow, 1965. The seventeen-year-old has just one destination on his mind--London--and successfully convinces his four friends, and fellow bandmates, to join him in abandoning their homes to pursue a goal of musical stardom.Glasgow, 2015. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. Only three of us would be going home. What started with five teenagers following a dream five decades before has been transformed over the intervening decades into a waking nightmare that might just consume them all.Runaway is a tense crime thriller spanning a half-century of friendships solidified and severed, dreams shared and shattered, passions ignited and extinguished, all set against the backdrop of two unique cities at two unique and transformational periods of recent history.. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life.London, 2015. Headstrong teenager Ja
"Stretching the parameters of the genre, Runaway is as much a disquisition on friendship and the fragility of dreams as it is a thriller."Financial Times"The book is beautifully written, funny and poignant, and very different from any I have previously read by the versatile Peter May."Literary Review"A well-told tale The two time streams are woven together skilfully and the book ends with an intensely moving glimmer of renewed hope."The Spectator"May is going from strength to strength A wonderful exhibition of just how good May can be."