Through the Barricades - Maher, Dc
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When devastating news hits, just as you are adapting to your life as a young adult, you may struggle to cope and consequently handle situations poorly. But then life slowly takes on a feeling of normality, you accept things for what they are, you fall in love and you become a better person for the trauma. As Keegan Devlin, a young man growing up on a council estate in East London, faces the news of his best friends terminal condition, he reacts and not initially in a positive way. But his strength of character and ability to focus on the positive aspects, with humour and a deep sense of…mehr

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When devastating news hits, just as you are adapting to your life as a young adult, you may struggle to cope and consequently handle situations poorly. But then life slowly takes on a feeling of normality, you accept things for what they are, you fall in love and you become a better person for the trauma. As Keegan Devlin, a young man growing up on a council estate in East London, faces the news of his best friends terminal condition, he reacts and not initially in a positive way. But his strength of character and ability to focus on the positive aspects, with humour and a deep sense of responsibility, carries him through. Meeting Emily he transforms his life and makes a bold decision aiming to give them a future. These are the early years of the 1980s and with new positive attitudes and opportunities for everyone in the UK, anything is possible. His friend is still battling, and against all the odds, is winning against his illness. But then War! The Falkland's have been invaded and Keegan, as a member of The Parachute Regiment is part of the task force sent to recapture the islands. If fighting battles in terrifying conditions was not enough for a young man to cope with, events happening back in the UK will have profound life changing consequences for everybody. A novel that builds slowly, reflecting the way ordinary people deal with not quite so ordinary subjects, explodes on one fateful night in April 1982. Their lives will never be the same again.
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Born in 1963, I grew up in the age of the disco music, huge mobile phones, yuppies and yes how can we forget ... the DeLorean.The 80s will always be remembered as an age of great social and political upheaval, it was the time of Margret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and the fall of the Berlin Wall. With all this happening, my personal upbringing was scarred by my older sister's love of all things David Cassidy and later the Bay City Rollers, she even stole my cricket whites and wore them with tartan up the leg!Having spent the majority of my life as a prolific reader, I have been influenced by a wide range of writers ranging from James Clavell, Ken Follet and Conn Iggulden, through to more contemporary works from Veronica Roth, Ben Aaronovitch and Stephanie Myers.