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Fallout
Fallout | Sadie Jones
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A deeply affecting love story set in the gritty yet magnificent theatre world of 1970s London by the award-winning, bestselling Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests and The Outcase Luke Kanowski is a young playwright: intense, magnetic, fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East. Arriving in London, he meets Paul Driscoll, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh Radley, the girl Paul loves. Luke, Paul and Leigh set up a radical theatre company, living and working together, forging a connection in the smoky late nights of Chelseas run-down flats and damp rehearsal rooms above pubs, candlelit during power cuts, where a new generation of writers and directors is fighting for its place. Nina Jacobs is a fragile actress, bullied by her mother and in thrall to a controlling producer. When Luke meets Nina he recognizes a soul in danger, and loyalty, friendship, everything he has fought for, is drawn into the heat of their collision. As Luke ricochets between honesty and deceit, the promise of the future and his own painful past, suddenly the fallout threatens to be immense. Fallout is an elegantly crafted novel that brings us firmly into the psyche of romantic love, its sickness and its ecstasy.
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Rachbb3
Fallout | Sadie Jones
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I tried to pick #thistitleequalsgreatbandname that I actually have.

The Beautiful and Damned
Fallout
Postern of Fate
The Romantic Egoists

Dragon Agatha Christie's books make great band names. 😎 8y
CouronneDhiver I agree - The Beautiful and the Damned is a really good one! 8y
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ChloeTallis
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I really enjoyed this book. I would describe it as quietly tragic. The characters are believable in that they remind me of how free spirited but also obsessional and selfish 20-somethings can be. The lesson is definitely that the grass is rarely greener on the other side and that love, powerful and all consuming as it can be, can also be destructive and lonely. Easy read, but a really great story.

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"He had lost himself and everything he loved, gracelessly, to the mirage of salvation"

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ChloeTallis
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Finishing this book today! Review to follow. Happy thursday all! Hope your day features coffee too! Almost fri-Yay 😁

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ChloeTallis
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Trip to Daunt Books yesterday in London ❤

[DELETED] 206653737 Pretty! All the books!!! 8y
ReadingSusan Gorgeous! 8y
AnnieReads Omg!!! That store looks awesome! 8y
ChloeTallis In my element 😊 8y
Loretta So gorgeous. 💜💕 8y
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ChloeTallis
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Post-run read. With chocolate of course. #thursday

Steph_EE I thought I was the only one that did that! 8y
ChloeTallis @Steph_EE very important recuperation!! 😊 8y
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ChloeTallis
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It's a new book day! Anybody read anything by Sadie Jones? This is my first one - bought for my birthday by a friend.

^^^best and only way to start a Monday! 👏🏻👏🏻^^^

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LisaLewis99
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Good read so far - interesting characters and a storyline that is keeping me entertained. Really enjoyed both The Outcast and The Uninvited Guests by the same author.