Maybe it's about time by Neil Boss

 Maybe it's about Time

 by Neil Boss

Synopsis

Two people trapped in their different worlds. One by wealth and one by poverty. Twenty years working for The Firm has given Marcus Barlow everything he wants but has taken his soul in return. Finding a way to leave has become an obsession.

 

Claire Halford’s life hits rock bottom when she is caught stealing food from Tesco Express. Left alone by her husband with two small children and an STI, her suicide music is starting to play louder in her head.

 

A chance meeting brings them together. As a mystery virus from China starts to run riot across the country, their world’s collide and they find they have more in common than they knew.

 

Set in the early months of 2020, Maybe It’s About Time is a story about the difficulty of changing lives for the better. Starting as a funny and satirical view of the egocentric world of professional services, it gives way to a heart-warming story of an unlikely friendship that rejuvenates Marcus and Claire, giving them both hope for a better future.

My Review

This has to be one of the most moving books I have read for a very long time and I have got to be honest I didn't expect it to be. I went from finding so many humorous and farcical points during the first part of the book to being emotionally torn apart in the latter sections. Neil pulls you in straight away with the storyline and how it develops as the Covid virus starts develop. The diversity of Neil's characters is brilliant along with the different way the think and react to changing circumstances. however, as the pandemic and the storyline progressed I found myself revisiting, in my mind, what it was like as the virus took hold of the world and the tragic and unbelievable way of living we all had to endure as a result, in order to try and keep ourselves and out loved ones safe.

 As the story moves through the early days of the pandemic and its effect on Marcus, Claire and Gavin you really do relive what we went through each time a different strategy or increasing numbers were announced by the government whilst feeling the pain and heartache these three endure every step of the way. You are also with them as some of them realise what are the most important parts of our lives and the trivial, stupid things people worry about.

For a debut novel this is an incredibly well written and emotive book that I would expect to have come from an author of many decades of writing and it has deservedly earned itself a permanent place on my bookshelf to be read , and recommended to others, in the future.

A very emotive 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 read that will serve as an epitaph to those of us who were fortunate to survive and those who will live on in our memories.

So my question to Neil is..."When can we expect to be reading your second book ? "

About the Author

I retired from a career in the corporate world in November 2019 with three objectives. To travel around the world and fly fish in the most exotic locations, to play my electric guitar better than I do and to write a novel that I could be genuinely proud of. The pandemic and lockdown in March 2020 put my first two objectives on hold leaving me no option but to start writing. Two and half years later, 'Maybe It's About Time', my first novel, was published.

As a piece of work, I am incredibly proud of it. It makes me laugh and cry in equal measure. I am even more proud that readers seem to be enjoying it just as much and it is getting great reviews.

Travel and fly fishing has now started again, my guitar playing is improving and a sequel to 'Maybe It's About Time' is planned to start in 2023!

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