I've just finished reading "The Lunatic Son". It took me a REALLY long time to finish. For some reason I just couldn't get into it enough to finish it, but I hate leaving books half finished so I persevered.

I enjoyed the little side notes that were thrown in throughout and actually found them very helpful. Otherwise I'd of been googling majority of this book!

For me, I just didn't fall in love with the plot or the characters. Maybe I was just too frustrated with Tom's lack of communication! Spit it out man!

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.

Wow! Starts a little slow, but just keeps getting better! A fantastic book - really enjoyed the story, and by the middle couldn’t put it down until I saw how it ended! Great read!!!!