As with his last few books, this one has a double timeline. The publicity blurb for the book tells us that parts of the story are based on May’s own experiences of running away to London as a teenager. He persuades Jack and Dave, the two remaining band members still living in Glasgow, to go back with him to London to put things right while there’s still time. Fifty years on, one of the band members, Maurie, now terminally ill with cancer, reveals that the person everyone thought was the killer was innocent, and that he knows who really did it. And Jack’s London adventure ends with a killing. But it’s also a place where young people can find themselves manipulated and used, and caught up in events they can’t control. It’s 1965, and London is swinging – the place to be for all aspiring musicians. He tells his friends, the other four members of the band he plays in, and they decide to go with him – partly to get away from problems in their own lives, and partly to seek fame and fortune. When Jack Mackay is expelled from school, he decides to run away to London.
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