Miracle Number Four by Paul Marriner

 Miracle Number Four

 by Paul Marriner

Miracle Number Four by Paul Marriner was published on 13th July 2023 by Bluescale Publishing. My thanks to the author and the publisher for sending me a copy to review and to review and to Love Book Tours for inviting me to take part on the tour.

Synopsis

A song of the suburbs: a story of family, friends, first love, tragedy, hope and rock and roll

It's 1976 and with dreams of a career in rock, a crush on the prettiest girl in town, and a mother in remission from cancer, Mike’s future looks bright.

Music brings excitement and a chance to shine, but life off-stage is complicated.

Together with family, friends and band-mates, Mike finds joy, sadness and loss.

Troubling secrets surface while a new friend brings both fresh perspectives and a cruel reality.

The radios and pubs blast rock into the suburban nights and the band prepare for their big break.

Is Mike ready?

A warm,thoughtful, questioning novel; a reminder of simpler days,

complicated emotions

and music of a generation.

My Review

This is an incredibly moving book starting in the era of the 1970s which had me engrossed from the first page.not withstanding the fact that each of the short chapters has a song title at the beginning and I found myself finding them on my playlist and listening to each one before I read the following chapter, and singing along with them !!!! Consequently the book took me longer to read than it should have. 

The book progresses at an easy pace , and yes there are times when you feel this is a little slow in moving on, but then again that reflects where the characters are in life and what is important to them at the time. The story centres around the different characters, not just Mike and Susan, as they progress through life following their dreams and also dealing with what life throws at them. it is because of this that I would strongly suggest that you do as I did and listen to the song before you read the chapter.

Yes there are four miracles that happen within the story, the first of which you encounter almost straight away at the beginning and the fourth , at the end of the book when Richard writes the last verse to Miracle Number Four.

This is very skilful writing with an intriguing layout that deals with a lot of teenage issues along with a lot of difficult scenarios that life throws at us about friendships, love and loss.

An incredible 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 read.

About the Author

Paul  Marriner grew up in a suburb of West London and now lives in Berkshire with his wife. 

He has two grown up children from whom he has learnt far more than he was able to teach and he is passionate about music, sport and, most of all, writing.

Paul  is now a full-time writer and has written five novels and his primary literary ambition is that you enjoy reading them while he is hard at work on the next one.

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