Blue Mondays by Mark Engineer

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‘Some of the boys act like we’re changing the world or something. Like the whole thing is something really deep and spiritual. ‘Me, I see it for what it is - a chance to get completely off me face.’

Welcome to Anywheresville UK, as the Second Summer of Love comes to a quiet commuter town.

Meet the boys: Alex hates school and his father. He likes his mates, his drugs and the pub, but most of all he loves his acid tracks.

Joe loves life on the margins, dealing and dreaming and drawing dole. But his girl’s on his case, and he knows he must move on if he’s to find the Promised Land.

Danny enjoys the squalor and camaraderie of student life, but he’s suffering from a lack of love.

Meet Alex’s father, policeman Graeme. He hates his job and his life, and a hostile son is all he needs.

Meet his wife Angela, caught between them and beaten down by small town life.

Listen as their voices tell of a year of risk, opportunity, triumph and disaster. Some will change their lives, if not the world. Others may have little to look back on, except perhaps…for a succession of blue Mondays.

Mark Engineer

is 34 and lives in Hertford, Herts. He quite often moves away, but always seems to end up back there.

He has worked as a call centre rep, salesman, recruitment consultant and journalist. His ambition is to sell enough books to be able to stop job-hopping and do something he really loves.

This is his first novel.

Mark Engineer is 34 and lives in Hertford, Herts. He quite often moves away, but always seems to end up back there.

He has worked as a call centre rep, salesman, recruitment consultant and journalist. His ambition is to sell enough books to be able to stop job-hopping and do something he really loves.

This is his first novel.