How does it feel to be rich in your bank account, and bankrupt in your heart?

 

It’s the 1980s and Lydia and Tim’s world is surfing the Thatcherite good times.  But their family are starting to go under. With an alcoholic mother, an adulterous, porn-obsessed dad, it seems things couldn’t get much weirder.  And wilder and weirder they do get. 

 

This Is Not A Love Song inhales the heady air of the 80s, exhales sorrow.  Poignant, painful, occasionally funny, coming of age. At a time when Margaret Thatcher ruled and Simon Le Bon was the stuff of schoolgirls’ dreams, the novel explores what it is like to be part of a family who are privileged financially and yet deprived emotionally.  On the outside, Lydia and Tim have it all.  In reality, they have nothing at all.  This is their story.