My life in someone else's book...

I was given the book Hearts and Flowers Border by an old friend while I was in the UK last week.

I'm not a huge fan of gay fiction - it's often far too graphic and rude for me... I like something a little less in your face. This hits the spot and then some.
I couldn't put it down.

Telling the story of unrequited love between two schoolfriends in Stockport in the mid-1980s, this had me hooked from the get-go.
I laughed, cried and shook with emotion as the story spilling out from the pages seemed, in parts, to mirror my own experiences in the last however long.

The ending was a bit crap - but the rest of the book was outstanding. I've read it four times in a week...