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By: Dave Spence

Gate-Crashers

Pages: 256 Ratings: 5.0
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It’s Christmas 1984 in Manchester and seventeen year old Nick Hopper has devastating news on his mind.


Rather than reveal his tragedy to school mates in their gloomy old pub, Nick seeks a change of heart and goes to a trendy hotspot where life gets in the way of death when a beautiful girl writes on the back of his hand urging him to seize the day and choose life!


Along with his carefree best friend Heff, Nick embarks on the greatest night of his life gate-crashing a lavish house party to pursue the girl of his dreams, Jasmine.


Welcomed into the in-crowd’s heady ‘sex, drugs and pop music’ party world, Nick is forced to face his demons and discover who his real friends are when to win Jasmine’s heart he unwittingly throws the wildest New Year's Eve house party ever!

Dave Spence is a Manchester-based creative director whose advertising headlines are as short and punchy as they need to be. Ironically he discovered a passion for writing much more when his fiancée, Angie, encouraged him to enter a national writing competition for which he was awarded first prize and a dream holiday for two to the Caribbean. This amateur literary success prompted Dave to start writing his heart-warming, tear-jerking, laugh-out-loud, homage to the eighties: Gate-Crashers.

Customer Reviews
5.0
13 reviews
13 reviews
  • Mandy R

    Emotional Roller-Coaster!
    Incredibly well written, such detail I felt like I was there. Broke my heart at first but I was soon laughing out loud and rooting for Nick: Gate-Crashing house parties, making new friends, falling in love, heartbreak, friendship - eighties soundtrack - and the many questionable decisions made by a teenager home alone, Christmas 1984. Highly recommended reading this festive season!

  • David

    Great read and coming from Mcr fabulous memories. Always a good sign when you fly through a book.

  • Rina B

    OMG I cried a few times and laughed out loud lots of times throughout the book, it is so well written and really made me think of my college years.

  • Nigel Reeves

    Thoroughly enjoyed the story, a real roller coaster covering more serious issues of Mental health and 80's youth culture. Those fun days of growing up and carefree days and parties are distant memory brought to life by this fantastic book. a read not to be missed.

  • Karen Thompson

    A gripping read about love, loss, friendship, and, of course, our beloved eighties. I couldn't put this book down, it has the power to flip tears into laughter. Can't wait to read what happens next.

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