Forever Young

Ray Connolly

dec. 2011 · A&C Black

Om denne e-bog

In a small university town in the early 1980s, two old friends meet for the first time in decades - Father Michael, the priest with the leather jacket and the rock and roll guitar... and Jimmy, the cynical visiting academic. Twenty years ago, they'd played their music together and dreamed of making the big time.

Now, together again by chance, the old cycle moves round once more. Mary, attractive, available and in need of a man, draws them both to her - just as another girl had drawn them both, so many years ago.

Forever Young is the novelisation of Ray Connolly's Channel 4 film of the same name.

Om forfatteren

Born in 1940, Ray Connolly was brought up in Lancashire and attended the London School of Economics, where he read social anthropology. As a journalist, he has written for the London Evening Standard, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Observer. Much of his journalism about the Beatles over 40 years has been compiled into his book The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive.

His non-fiction includes Being Elvis: A Lonely Life and Being John Lennon: A Restless Life. His novels include Sunday Morning, Shadows on a Wall and Love out of Season, while for cinema he wrote the original screenplays That'll Be The Day and Stardust, and for television the series Lytton's Diary and Perfect Scoundrels.

He wrote and directed the TV documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager, and has written plays for radio, short stories and the novella Sorry Boys, You Failed the Audition. He is married and lives in London.