Love Before Covid

English teacher and writer Joe Pastorious is a jazz fan, Leicester based poet, and a victim of horrendous sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother. In a journey through real-time dialogues that emerge from Joe’s corrupted memories and dystopian dreams, follow this trip through Joe’s unconscious mind to learn more about Joe – and perhaps more about our world – than you could ever imagine.

You are left to your own devices to decide if you think there are any heroes or villains in this book. Whatever you decide, your moral boundaries will be pushed to the limit.

However there is always hope. For Joe Pastorious, that comes in the form of a psychopath named Janet Waverley.

Love Before Covid is both a highly melodramatic, and deeply mysterious novel – a book drenched in abuse, heartbreak, hope, and disorientation. Exploring the nature of love and drawing focus to the dark side of romance, procreation and sex, it deals unsparing with unpredictable behaviour, abuse, depravity and forgiveness. To find out what healthy love could be, this book explores what it shouldn’t be.