All I Ever Wanted

An honest, heart-aching study of one man’s life and loves, from his painfully formative school years to his ultimate success in the music industry.

Carl Peter Hough’s style is reminiscent of Nick Hornby and William Boyd – a cool, gritty and compelling read.

The strong storyline, lively insights into the world of rock and roll, compelling characters (the main one so honest, human, flawed, decent), and the haunting, elusive presence throughout draw you in right up to the very end.

This book will resonate with anyone who’s endured the agony and the ecstasy of unrequited love.

Some say first love stays with you forever. It’s the summer of 1978. When aspiring teenage rock star Paul Fox writes a song in the grip of an adolescent passion, he can have no idea that that song will go on to shape his whole career and, indeed, his life. As his fortunes and relationships ebb and flow, and triumphs and tragedies come and go, the song always reminds him of the great unresolved and unrequited love that inspired it, and the girl he wrote it for. Will Paul ever get closure or will what might have been be all he ever has?

The Girl Starts To Sing

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Having scored a big publishing success with the biography of a major rock star, Alan Fennemore might have expected his career as a writer to have taken off. It hasn't, and he finds himself making a living writing throwaway, unauthorised books about D-list celebrities and transient pop sensations. His current project is about Martin Byrne, a TV talent show contestant who is suddenly back in vogue. Unfortunately, Martin really is as inoffensive as his public persona suggests he is - there is simply nothing interesting to write about him.

In his increasingly desperate hunt for background information, Alan begins to realise that the public version of Byrne's family history doesn't stack up. The more he digs, the darker the landscape becomes until he's dangerously enmeshed in a much bigger story than he could ever have expected to find.

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The Girl Starts To Sing