The Lunatic Son: Tom Grey's Schooldays, a tale of the former Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire

By Jack C Whitehead

It's 1969 and mankind is shooting for the moon! Meet Tom Grey, the new Bob Dylan, a dreamer, a would-be village Hemingway and misplaced romantic.He's smart, he's witty - and totally lost between his own barely shaped dreams and his stubborn father's vain pursuit of his own faded ambitions. Can love save him, or will it just confuse him even more as it lays bare the predatory shallowness of his closest friendships and the barrenness of relationships lived purely on the physical level? Tom's journey is a personal awakening, funny, and unexpectedly poignant. Whilst his parents and the hormones of his teenage peers rage around him, Tom is walking the rocky road to manhood and wishing he'd packed a tougher pair of boots. Being cool while keeping your cool is not an easy tune to strum when you're weighed down by and struggling against all the prejudices, uncertainties and predatory instincts ingrained by upbringing and peer pressure. Tom has the arrogance and self-importance of youth, but they don't keep reality at bay forever. When Gwen, the girl with the Titian hair crashes into his life, all his literary and musical heroes and wry cynicism won't help one bit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B092P9NSDW
• ISBN13: 9798728428077
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"